This commit:
+ Adds support for a protocol which enables inter-op between concrete,
tfhe-rs and potentially other contributors to the fhe ecosystem.
+ Gets rid of hand-made serialization in the compiler, and
client/server libs.
+ Refactors client/server libs to allow more pre/post processing of
circuit inputs/outputs.
The protocol is supported by a definition in the shape of a capnp file,
which defines different types of objects among which:
+ ProgramInfo object, which is a precise description of a set of fhe
circuit coming from the same compilation (understand function type
information), and the associated key set.
+ *Key objects, which represent secret/public keys used to
encrypt/execute fhe circuits.
+ Value object, which represent values that can be transferred between
client and server to support calls to fhe circuits.
The hand-rolled serialization that was previously used is completely
dropped in favor of capnp in the whole codebase.
The client/server libs, are refactored to introduce a modular design for
pre-post processing. Reading the ProgramInfo file associated with a
compilation, the client and server libs assemble a pipeline of
transformers (functions) for pre and post processing of values coming in
and out of a circuit. This design properly decouples various aspects of
the processing, and allows these capabilities to be safely extended.
In practice this commit includes the following:
+ Defines the specification in a concreteprotocol package
+ Integrate the compilation of this package as a compiler dependency
via cmake
+ Modify the compiler to use the Encodings objects defined in the
protocol
+ Modify the compiler to emit ProgramInfo files as compilation
artifact, and gets rid of the bloated ClientParameters.
+ Introduces a new Common library containing the functionalities shared
between the compiler and the client/server libs.
+ Introduces a functional pre-post processing pipeline to this common
library
+ Modify the client/server libs to support loading ProgramInfo objects,
and calling circuits using Value messages.
+ Drops support of JIT.
+ Drops support of C-api.
+ Drops support of Rust bindings.
Co-authored-by: Nikita Frolov <nf@mkmks.org>
This commit brings support for multiple secret keys in the TFHE
dialect. In particular, a parameterized `TFHE` circuit can now be
given as input, with any combination of (semantically valid) of
ks/bs/woppbs mixing different secret keys, and compiled down to a
valid executable function, with server keys properly looked up.
Secret keys are now stateful objects which can be:
-> none/unparameterized (syntax `sk?`): The keys are in state after
the lowering from the `FHE` dialect.
-> parameterized (syntax `sk<identifier, polysize, dimension>`): The
keys were parameterized, either by user or by the optimizer. The
`identifier` field can be used to disambiguate two keys with same
`polysize` and `dimension`.
-> normalized (syntax `sk[index]<polysize, dimension>`): The keys were
attached to their index in the list of keys in the runtime context.
The _normalization_ of key indices also acts on the ksk, bsk and pksk,
which are given indices in the same spirit now.
Finally, in order to allow parameterized `TFHE` circuit to be given
as input and compiled down to executable functions, we added a way to
pass the encodings that are used to encode/decode the circuit
inputs/outputs. In the case of a compilation from the `FHE` dialect,
those informations are automatically extracted from the higher level
informations available in this dialect.
