R6 object to use as non-cooperating party in a distributed homomorphic computation

NCP objects are worker objects that separate a master process from communicating directly with the worker processes. Typically two such are needed for a distributed homomorphic computation. A master process can communicate with NCP objects and the NCP objects can communicate with worker processes. However, the two NCP objects, designated by numbers 1 and 2, are non-cooperating in the sense that they don't communicate with each other and are isolated from each other.

Public fields

pubkey

the master's public key visible to everyone

pubkey_bits

the number of bits in the public key (used for reconstructing public key remotely by serializing to character)

pubkey_n

the n for the public key used for reconstructing public key remotely

den

the denominator for rational arithmetic

den_bits

the number of bits in the denominator used for reconstructing denominator remotely

Methods

Public methods

Method new()

Create a new NCP object.

Usage

NCP$new(
  ncp_defn,
  comp_defn,
  sites = list(),
  pubkey_bits = NULL,
  pubkey_n = NULL,
  den_bits = NULL
)

Arguments

ncp_defn

the NCP definition; see example

comp_defn

the computation definition

sites

list of sites

pubkey_bits

the number of bits in public key

pubkey_n

the n for the public key

den_bits

the number of bits in the denominator (power of 2) used in rational approximations

Returns

a new NCP object

Method getStateful()

Retrieve the value of the stateful field

Usage

NCP$getStateful()

Method setParams()

Set some parameters of the NCP object for homomorphic computations

Usage

NCP$setParams(pubkey_bits, pubkey_n, den_bits)

Arguments

pubkey_bits

the number of bits in public key

pubkey_n

the n for the public key

den_bits

the number of bits in the denominator (power of 2) used in rational approximations

Method getSites()

Retrieve the value of the private sites field

Usage

NCP$getSites()

Method setSites()

Set the value of the private sites field

Usage

NCP$setSites(sites)

Arguments

sites

the list of sites

Method addSite()

Add a url or worker object for a site for participating in the distributed computation. The worker object can be used to avoid complications in debugging remote calls during prototyping.

Usage

NCP$addSite(name, url = NULL, worker = NULL)

Arguments

name

of the site

url

web url of the site; exactly one of url or worker should be specified

worker

worker object for the site; exactly one of url or worker should be specified

Method cleanupInstance()

Clean up by destroying instance objects created in workspace.

Usage

NCP$cleanupInstance(token)

Arguments

token

the token for the instance

Method run()

Run the distributed homomorphic computation

Usage

NCP$run(token)

Arguments

token

a unique token for the run, used to ensure that correct parts of cached results are returned appropriately

Returns

the result of the computation

Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

NCP$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.