Zama are very excited to announce our release of Concrete Numpy as a public beta. Building on the efficiency, usability, and simplicity of the Concret

Announcing Concrete Numpy

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2022-01-12 15:30:07

Zama are very excited to announce our release of Concrete Numpy as a public beta. Building on the efficiency, usability, and simplicity of the Concrete library, we are releasing this open source compiler and a Numpy frontend.

In October 2021, we showcased our HNP (Homomorphic Numpy) prototype. It allowed data scientists without any prior knowledge of cryptography to automatically turn Numpy functions into their FHE equivalent. Concrete Numpy incorporates many of the things we learned from the original HNP prototype.

HNP (see examples) is far more user friendly than other APIs for cryptographers. Install our tool, open your Jupyter notebook, and simply import the HNP package in python. Then, you just have to write Numpy as you would normally do. No prior understanding of cryptography is required to create an equivalent program running over encrypted values. You only have to give the shapes, data types, and whether the inputs of the program are clear or encrypted at runtime.

We believe that over-complex systems can easily introduce vulnerabilities, this is why we want to provide an automatically secured configuration. Of course, if you are curious, you can still check Homomorphic Encryption 101.