Announcing Concrete Core v1.0-beta

Concrete-core V1.0.0-beta has been released, marking a significant step toward the official 1.0.0 release, and introduces several new features and enhancements aimed at expanding cryptographic operations and simplifying testing and integration. This beta version includes new public engines and entities in the Core backend, such as the packing keyswitch, the encryption of GGSW ciphertexts, and engines for trivial encryption and decryption. Additionally, two new companion libraries, Concrete-core-fixture and Concrete-core-test, are introduced to facilitate the systematic testing of engines across different backends by using prototype generation, synthesis, and result verification processes. These additions enhance the ability to test and compare new implementations and hardware accelerations, making it easier to integrate new features into the Concrete-core framework. The release aims to streamline the development process for hardware acceleration in Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) and invites developers to explore further through tutorials and contributions.