Welcome to VIFF’s documentation!

The Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework is a general framework for doing secure multi-party computation.

This is the documentation for VIFF 0.7. If you have comments and suggestions for improvements to the documentation, then please let us know.

Caveat

This documentation is for a development version of VIFF (version 0.7-0e067bc07ee3) built October 02, 2008 and it might be different from the last released version. The documentation for other releases can be found online.

Contents:

• Overview
  • Security Assumptions
  • Architecture

• Installation Guide
  • Windows
  • Mac OS X
  • GNU/Linux
  • Testing

• Implementation
  • Utility Functions Module
  • Finite Fields Module
  • Shamir Module
  • Matrix Module
  • Runtime Module
  • Actively Secure Protocols
  • Paillier Crypto System
  • Comparison protocols
  • PRSS Module
  • Config Module

• Background Information
  • Program Counters
  • Preprocessing
  • The History of VIFF

• Coding Style
  • The VIFF Coding Style in Short
  • The Twisted Coding Style
  • Hints for indexed variables

• Developer’s Guide
  • Getting the Source Code
  • Contributing Changes
  • Revising Changes

• Unit Testing
  • Running the Unit Tests
  • Writing Unit Tests

• Presentations

• Bibliography

• Contact
  • Mailing lists
  • IRC

• VIFF Development Team

• Glossary

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page