Running client and server separately

[jayavanth]

Hello, is there a way currently to run the client and server as separate processes over a network? If not, is it easy to do that?

[b5li]

Yes, you can instantiate hintless_pir::hintless_simplepir::Server and hintless_pir::hintless_simplepir::Client in separate processes. The interface of these two are fairly simple, and for communication the client would just need to send HintlessPirRequest to the server, and the server would send HintlessPirResponse back to the client.

[jayavanth]

Do I have to handle serialization and deserialization myself?

[jayavanth]

ok I was able to do the serialization and deserialization