Private Billings experiment

Experiment code for the Private Billings library.

Installation

Installation involves the following steps:

1. Clone this repository and its submodules

git clone git@github.com:3MI-Labs/private-billings-experiment.git --include-submodules

2. Install OpenFHE-development, following its installation procedure.

3. Install OpenFHE-python, following its installation procedure. We recommend installing at commit 87700c2c250ff39eaaa5cbe4daed3e5cb5d9b726; later installations introduce an obscure bug. Afterwards, make sure to add the installation file to your PYTHONPATH.

export PYTHONPATH=/path/to/OPENFHE_so_files:$PYTHONPATH

4. (recommended) Setup a virtual environment

python3 -m venv .env

5. Install the dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

6. Install the private billings dependency

python3 -m pip install -e deps/private-billings

At this point you should be able to launch a python shell and utilize the private_billings library. To verify this, open a shell and simply

import private_billings

7. Install the private-billings-data-generation repository. This repository can be used to generate the data required for this experiment. The generated data should be placed in the data/ folder.

More details in the installation procedure can be derived from the Dockerfile.