duoram

CONTENTS OF THIS FILE

• Introduction
• Setting up the docker
• Running the code

INTRODUCTION

/preprocessing holds code for the 3-Party preprocessing phase /2p-preprocessing holds the OT-based code 2-Party preprocessing phase /duoram-online holds the code for online phase of the 3-Party Duoram and 2-Party reads /cpir-read includes the code CPIR-based reads

Setting up the docker

• sh build-docker.sh builds the docker image
• sh run-docker.sh launches three docker containers for parties P2, P0, and P1
• sh set-networking.sh sets up the latencies and bandwidth constraints among the three docker containers launched; pass arguments of latency and bandwidth
• For example sh set-networking.sh 1ms 40mbit.
• sh unset-networking.sh removes the latency and bandwidth settings.
• sh experiments.sh runs the pre-processing phase of the 3-party computation.
• sh experiments-online.sh runs the online phase of the 3-party computation.
• sh experiments-OT.sh runs the OTs to generate blinds of 2-party preprocesing phase.
• sh experiments-2p-preproc.sh runs the pre-processing phase of the 2-party computation.
• sh experiments-cpir.sh runs the CPIR-based reads.
• sh cleanup.sh stops the three dockers.

Running the code

1.  Prepreprocessing:
    Let ip0, ip1, and ip2 be the IP addresses of the three docker containers. Consider a database of size `2^N`. Suppose the goal is to generate `r` DPFs.
    The pre-processing generates DPFs with leaves of 128 bits. We use the first 64-bits for the writes. The remaining 64-bits are used for share conversion (XOR shared-flag vectors to additive shares)
    1.1 `cd duoram/preprocessing`
    1.2 `./p2preprocessing ip1 ip0 N r`
    1.3 `./preprocessing1  ip2 ip0 N r`
    1.4 `./preprocessing0  ip2 ip1 N r`

    This writes the evaluations of DPFs into a file which we use in the online phase.

2.  Online Phase:
     Let ip0, ip1, and ip2 be the IP addresses of the three docker containers. Consider a database of size `2^N`.  
     2.1 `cd duoram/duoram-online`
     2.2 `./p2      ip1 ip0 N W D I A` 
     2.3 `./duoram1 ip0 ip2 N W D I A`
     2.4 `./duoram0 ip1 ip2 N W D I A`

Important Warning

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This software is for performance testing ONLY! The purpose of this software is to evaluate the performance of the system, NOT to be used in a deployment scenario.