Dan Bogdanov
2010-12-27 12:49:57 UTC
Good day!
For a few years now we have been working on a practical way for creating
applications that process confidential data. We are happy that we can
now share some of the results with you.
We have released the Sharemind toolkit for developing programs that can
process confidential data separately from public data. In addition,
confidential data can be processed using secure computation techniques
like secure multiparty computation.
You can find the software at http://research.cyber.ee/sharemind/
Currently, there is only a Microsoft Windows version, but expect support
for more platforms in future releases.
Please give these tools a try! There is a "Getting Started" tutorial on
the Sharemind web page, that walks you through some basic features. We
admit, that there are missing features and probably also some bugs.
Please let us know of both!
Our plan with Sharemind is twofold. First, we are looking for
collaborators for building application prototypes or applications. We
are already deploying the technology in real world settings and further
opportunities to improve the privacy guarantees of your systems are more
than welcome.
Second, we want to encourage academic collaboration. As Sharemind is a
generic framework, it can be used for researching privacy preserving
applications and algorithms. We are most interested in hearing whether
you can come up with a better sorting algorithm written in the SecreC
language.
Since Sharemind is complete system, we have also met challenges in
cryptography, programming languages and software engineering. Faster
protocols, detection of privacy leaks in programs and new application
interfaces are all of great interest to us.
Waiting to hear from you,
Dan Bogdanov
research and Sharemind project leader
Cybernetica
***@cyber.ee
For a few years now we have been working on a practical way for creating
applications that process confidential data. We are happy that we can
now share some of the results with you.
We have released the Sharemind toolkit for developing programs that can
process confidential data separately from public data. In addition,
confidential data can be processed using secure computation techniques
like secure multiparty computation.
You can find the software at http://research.cyber.ee/sharemind/
Currently, there is only a Microsoft Windows version, but expect support
for more platforms in future releases.
Please give these tools a try! There is a "Getting Started" tutorial on
the Sharemind web page, that walks you through some basic features. We
admit, that there are missing features and probably also some bugs.
Please let us know of both!
Our plan with Sharemind is twofold. First, we are looking for
collaborators for building application prototypes or applications. We
are already deploying the technology in real world settings and further
opportunities to improve the privacy guarantees of your systems are more
than welcome.
Second, we want to encourage academic collaboration. As Sharemind is a
generic framework, it can be used for researching privacy preserving
applications and algorithms. We are most interested in hearing whether
you can come up with a better sorting algorithm written in the SecreC
language.
Since Sharemind is complete system, we have also met challenges in
cryptography, programming languages and software engineering. Faster
protocols, detection of privacy leaks in programs and new application
interfaces are all of great interest to us.
Waiting to hear from you,
Dan Bogdanov
research and Sharemind project leader
Cybernetica
***@cyber.ee