TenSEAL

A library for doing homomorphic encryption operations on tensors

TenSEAL is a library for doing homomorphic encryption operations on tensors, built on top of Microsoft SEAL. It provides ease of use through a Python API, while preserving efficiency by implementing most of its operations using C++.

Features

• 🔑 Encryption/Decryption of vectors of integers using BFV
• 🗝️ Encryption/Decryption of vectors of real numbers using CKKS
• 🔥 Element-wise addition, substraction and multiplication of encrypted-encrypted vectors and encrypted-plain vectors
• 🌀 Dot product and vector-matrix multiplication
• ⚡ Complete SEAL API under tenseal.sealapi

Usage

We show the basic operations over encrypted data, more advanced usage for machine learning applications can be found on our tutorial section

import tenseal as ts

# Setup TenSEAL context
context = ts.context(
            ts.SCHEME_TYPE.CKKS,
            poly_modulus_degree=8192,
            coeff_mod_bit_sizes=[60, 40, 40, 60]
          )
context.generate_galois_keys()
context.global_scale = 2**40

v1 = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
v2 = [4, 3, 2, 1, 0]

# encrypted vectors
enc_v1 = ts.ckks_vector(context, v1)
enc_v2 = ts.ckks_vector(context, v2)

result = enc_v1 + enc_v2
result.decrypt() # ~ [4, 4, 4, 4, 4]

result = enc_v1.dot(enc_v2)
result.decrypt() # ~ [10]

matrix = [
  [73, 0.5, 8],
  [81, -5, 66],
  [-100, -78, -2],
  [0, 9, 17],
  [69, 11 , 10],
]
result = enc_v1.matmul(matrix)
result.decrypt() # ~ [157, -90, 153]

Installation

Using pip

$ pip install tenseal

This installs the last packaged version on pypi. If your platform doesn't have a ready package, please open an issue to let us know.

Build from Source

Supported platforms and their requirements are listed below: (this are only required for building TenSEAL from source)

• Linux: A modern version of GNU G++ (>= 6.0) or Clang++ (>= 5.0).
• MacOS: Xcode toolchain (>= 9.3)
• Windows: Microsoft Visual Studio (>= 10.0.40219.1, Visual Studio 2010 SP1 or later).

If you want to install tenseal from the repository, you should first make sure to have the requirements for your platform (listed above) and CMake (3.12 or higher) installed, then get the third party libraries (if you didn't already) by running the following command from the root directory of the project

$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

TenSEAL uses Protocol Buffers for serialization, and you will need the protocol buffer compiler too.

If you are on Windows, you will first need to build SEAL library using Visual Studio, you should use the solution file SEAL.sln in third_party/SEAL to build the project native\src\SEAL.vcxproj with Configuration=Release and Platform=x64. For more details check the instructions in Building Microsoft SEAL

You can then trigger the build and the installation

$ pip install .

Use Docker

You can use our Docker image for a ready to use environment with TenSEAL installed

$ docker container run --interactive --tty openmined/tenseal

Note: openmined/tenseal points to the image from the last release, use openmined/tenseal:dev for the image built from the master branch.

You can also build your custom image, this might be handy for developers working on the project

$ docker build -t tenseal -f docker-images/Dockerfile-py38 .

To interactively run this docker image as a container after it has been built you can run

$ docker container run -it tenseal

Using Bazel

To use this library in another Bazel project, add the following in your WORKSPACE file:

git_repository(
   name = "org_openmined_tenseal",
   remote = "https://github.com/OpenMined/TenSEAL",
   branch = "master",
   init_submodules = True,
)

load("@org_openmined_tenseal//tenseal:preload.bzl", "tenseal_preload")

tenseal_preload()

load("@org_openmined_tenseal//tenseal:deps.bzl", "tenseal_deps")

tenseal_deps()

Benchmarks

You can benchmark the implementation at any point by running

$ bazel run -c opt --spawn_strategy=standalone //tests/cpp/benchmarks:benchmark

The benchmarks from every PR merge are uploaded here.

Tutorials

• Getting Started
• Tutorial 1 - Training and Evaluation of Logistic Regression on Encrypted Data
• Tutorial 2 - Working with Approximate Numbers
• Tutorial 3 - Benchmarks
• Tutorial 4 - Encrypted Convolution on MNIST

Publications

A. Benaissa, B. Retiat, B. Cebere, A.E. Belfedhal, "TenSEAL: A Library for Encrypted Tensor Operations Using Homomorphic Encryption", ICLR 2021 Workshop on Distributed and Private Machine Learning (DPML 2021).

@misc{tenseal2021,
    title={TenSEAL: A Library for Encrypted Tensor Operations Using Homomorphic Encryption}, 
    author={Ayoub Benaissa and Bilal Retiat and Bogdan Cebere and Alaa Eddine Belfedhal},
    year={2021},
    eprint={2104.03152},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CR}
}

Support

For support in using this library, please join the #support Slack channel. Click here to join our Slack community!

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

License

Apache License 2.0