How to Install PolitePol on OpenBSD

In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install PolitePol on OpenBSD, a distributed privacy-preserving polynomial time machine learning framework.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure that you have the following:

• A server with OpenBSD installed
• A user account with sudo permissions

Step 1: Install Dependencies

We need to install some dependencies for PolitePol to work properly. Run the following command as a sudo user to install them.

sudo pkg_add python3 py3-pip git
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3.9 /usr/local/bin/python

Step 2: Clone The Repository

Now that we have installed the dependencies, we can proceed to clone the PolitePol repository from GitHub. Run the following commands to do this:

git clone https://github.com/taroved/pol.git
cd pol

Step 3: Install PolitePol

Once you have the repository downloaded, you can install PolitePol. Run the following command to do this:

sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Step 4: Configure PolitePol

Next, we need to configure PolitePol. To do this, we need to edit the config.yaml configuration file. Run the following command to edit this file:

nano config.yaml

In the configuration file, you will see several options. You should modify the ports option to a port number that you want to use for PolitePol. By default, PolitePol uses port 5555. You can also modify threads and datapath to change how many threads are used during training and where to save the data. Save the file once you're done.

Step 5: Run PolitePol

Finally, we can run PolitePol. Run the following command to do this:

python -m pol -m server

This command will start the PolitePol server.

Conclusion

You have successfully installed PolitePol on your OpenBSD server. You can now start training your machine learning models with PolitePol.