PySEAL: A Python wrapper implementation of the SEAL homomorphic encryption library

March 05, 2018 · Entered Twilight · 🏛 arXiv.org

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Repo contents: .gitignore, Dockerfile, LICENSE.txt, README.md, SEAL.sln, SEAL, SEALExamples, SEALNET, SEALNETExamples, SEALNETTest, SEALPython, SEALPythonExamples, SEALPythonNotebooks, SEALTest, VERSION.txt, build-docker.sh, run-docker-jupyter.sh, run-docker.sh

Authors Alexander J. Titus, Shashwat Kishore, Todd Stavish, Stephanie M. Rogers, Karl Ni arXiv ID 1803.01891 Category q-bio.QM Cross-listed cs.CR Citations 12 Venue arXiv.org Repository https://github.com/Lab41/PySEAL ⭐ 230 Last Checked 1 month ago

Abstract

Motivation: The ability to perform operations on encrypted data has a growing number of applications in bioinformatics, with implications for data privacy in health care and biosecurity. The SEAL library is a popular implementation of fully homomorphic encryption developed in C++ by Microsoft Research. Despite the advantages of C++, Python is a flexible and dominant programming language that enables rapid prototyping of bioinformatics pipelines. Results: In an effort to make homomorphic encryption accessible to a broader range of bioinformatics scientists and applications, we present a Python binding implementation of the popular homomorphic encryption library, SEAL, using pybind11. The software contains a Docker image to facilitate easy installation and execution of the SEAL build process. Availability: All code is publicly available at https://github.com/Lab41/PySEAL Contact: lab41@iqt.org Supplementary information: Supplementary information is available on the Lab41 GitHub.