coron/fhe

The coron/fhe project is a historical artifact in the field of cryptography. Launched over 14 years ago (approx. 2010), it provides a reference implementation of the DGHV scheme, which was the first FHE scheme to work over integers rather than ideal lattices. While mathematically significant at the time, DGHV is notoriously inefficient compared to modern 'fourth generation' schemes like CKKS or TFHE, requiring massive key sizes and slow computation times. With zero recent velocity and a star count reflecting purely academic interest, this project has no defensibility. It lacks the performance, community, and tooling found in modern FHE libraries like Zama's Concrete, OpenFHE, or Microsoft SEAL. Frontier labs are unlikely to compete with this specific repo because the underlying scheme is obsolete for practical applications. Any modern implementation would favor Ring-LWE based schemes. It serves as a pedagogical tool for researchers rather than a building block for production software.