[viff-devel] Multiparty AES in less than 3 seconds per block thanks to Twisted hack

[Martin Geisler]

Marcel Keller <mkeller at cs.au.dk> writes:

>> [...] Maybe your short patch didn't provide enough information when
>> taken out of context.
>
> That may be true. I just thought that I don't want to bother him with
> VIFF code.

Right, but I think we got a nice reply from him when I followed up with
more details.

>> Do you mean the inlineCallbacks or the coiterate? And why it not
>> work?
>
> As far as I understood it, inlineCallbacks would stop the VIFF code,
> which would make it not asynchronous anymore. Coiterate needs
> generator functions. Maybe I'm wrong but I just consider the VIFF code
> to be too complex to be put in generator functions.

Please see the example posted by Jean-Paul Calderone for use with
coiterate. It looks better than I had expected and I think it's nice to
see what our alternatives are.

But it is clear that our illusion that "x * y" is just like a normal
multiplication begins to break down.

-- 
Martin Geisler

VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient
SMPC (Secure Multiparty Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.
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