concrete/docs/user/concepts.md

Concepts

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The zamacompiler is based on MLIR (which is part of the LLVM project). It has 3 internal MLIR dialects to manage different kinds of abstractions: FHE, TFHE and Concrete

It lowers programs (usually from the FHE dialect) to binaries or libraries which can be called via the ... API. Its cryptographics primitives are provided by the concrete library.