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it looks like this PR needs to be rebase on top of the current main branch |
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Thank you, @armfazh ....you’re right. I’ve rebased on the latest main and pushed again. |
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| // ExportRaw serializes the vector as a sequence of raw field elements | ||
| func (v Vec) ExportRaw() ([]byte, error) { |
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This looks like the same encoding as the one provided by the Marshal function?
https://github.com/cloudflare/circl/blob/main/vdaf/prio3/arith/fp64/fp.go#L41
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| // ExportBytes returns the portable binary encoding of the OutShare. | ||
| func (s *OutShare[V, E]) ExportBytes() ([]byte, error) { |
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This is equivalent to calling s.MarshalBinary directly. So no need to have the ExportBytes and ImportBytes methods.
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Summary
This PR adds minimal, backward-compatible serialization helpers for CIRCL’s Prio3 types to support cross-process and distributed deployments of Verifiable Distributed Aggregation Functions (VDAFs).
Background
The current CIRCL VDAF implementation assumes that all aggregators and the collector operate within a single process.
Serialization helpers (e.g., for
InputShare,PrepShare,OutShare) are defined undervdaf/prio3/internal/prio3, which cannot be accessed externally due to Go’sinternal/package visibility rules.This makes distributed deployments — where aggregators and the collector run on distinct hosts — infeasible without modifying CIRCL.
Our patch exposes a minimal public serialization interface to enable share transmission between processes while preserving CIRCL’s internal cryptographic semantics.
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