Three fronts
Research, hacking & branding
Research
We started with a paper from 2013:
Single-Database Private Information Retrieval from Fully Homomorphic Encryption[
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Hacking
Then we got our hands dirty:
We wrote install scripts for libscarab
Also a Python wrapper for libscarab
The Blindstore server library
And the Blindstore client library
But we also took care of making it easy to use:
- We wrote documentation for Blindstore client
- And tests for pyScarab (passing in Travis!)
Branding
What about having some identity?
We designed a logo
And a cool project website
Video on homomorphic encryption
Our tools
For hacking:
Python + Flask for Blindstore
Meteor.js for the demo website
For collaborating:
Git and Github and Gitter for chat
For documenting:
StackEdit.io for writing the hackathon log
PowToon for making the video