Why are you using base 2 for the number encoding ?

[Moustafa Alzantot]

I wonder why you have chosen to use base 2 for the floating number encoding.
This would make compatibility issues when passing communicating with software using the your python-paillier library which uses base 16 by default.
Also, as the higher base value, the less information is leaked by the exponent, I wonder what made you decide to use base 2 ?

Thanks,
Moustafa

[Brian Thorne]

The base in python-paillier should be configurable but ideally both javallier and python-paillier will use the same default base.

As for the information leakage, as mentioned in the python-pallier docs if the exponent is chosen ahead of time this shouldn't be an issue.