Inspiration

On ETHBerlin the Nucypher team has asked me to if their proxy re-encryption protocol can be implemented on mobile devices. By that time I've already started to implement a pure-Swift library (no C/C++ parts) for Elliptic curve arithmetics and pairings. On this hackathon, I've decided with the help of team members to start implementing their proxy re-encryption protocol Umbral as a demo for my library.

What it does

Allows arbitrary EC arithmetics (not in extension fields yet) to be used on mobile devices with good speed and without a mess of C/C++ integrations, so making Umbral proxy re-encryption will be trivial once it's finished and polished

How we BUIDL it

Part of the library was ready; now it required the following extensions

• Define curve over the abstract field that can operate on any wide unsigned integer type that has some properties
• Backport wide integers (UInt256/UInt512) for iOS devices. This library is universal for MacOS/iOS, but on MacOS it was using U256 implemented using AVX Intel processor instructions, so equivalent for iOS has to be backported (more precisely - polyfilled)
• Start implementing Umbral itself

Challenges I ran into

• Implementing fast wide arithmetics is always a challenge
• For the ease of work with UInt256 some functionality had to be implemented for UInt512 (full multiplication UInt256 * UInt256 -> UInt512, modular reduction UInt512 -> UInt256)
• Arithmetics of UInt256/UInt512 has to be tested first to event start testing elliptic curve arithmetics

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

• UInt256 is entirely valid except modular reduction (see next point)
• UInt512 is valid except of the division for some reason

What I learned

• The naive implementation of wide integer types through arrays involves too many Copy-on-Write, so manual memory management is good if you know what you are doing

What's next for Keep your privacy with you

• Finish and polish a library (testing mainly + documentation)
• Finish and test Umbral
• Ideally, add a backed that does proxy re-encryption and sends notifications re-encryption requests to the mobile device to get a fresh re-encryption key

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ReEncryptHealth

Safely sending private medical data, using threshold proxy re-encryption with Umbral

Initialized @ETHSanFrancisco-hackathon by:

• shamatar (Main developer: Umbral Swift library, TinyBigInt Swift library)
• BaldyAsh (iOS application, TinyBigInt Swift library)

What is it

• Native Swift application showing how to use our Umral proxy re-encryption library - EllipticSwift:
  • Get your medical data from Apple
  • Encrypt it
  • Re-encrypt it and send to someone you trust
  • Secure and convenient
• Swift implementation of David Nuñez's threshold proxy re-encryption scheme: Umbral. Implemented with TinyBigInt, it is a referential and open-source cryptography library extending the traditional cryptological narrative of "Alice and Bob" by introducing a new actor, Ursula, who has the ability to take secrets encrypted for Alice and re-encrypt them for Bob.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It works! Hooooray!!!

What we learned

Umbral algorithm and how to work with Apples' medical data, how to write and how not to write Big Ints on Swift.

What's next

• improve app - more medical data, more new Apple Watch features like ECG
• improve Umbral lib
• improve Big Int lib

Big shout out to

NuCypher team for their work on open-source projects and the proxy re-encryption network!