Sharing (data) is caring, especially when it’s secure
Data is the lifeblood of the modern enterprise, but leveraging its full potential often requires collaboration and analysis across organizational boundaries. Sharing sensitive data, however, raises significant privacy and security concerns. This is where Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC) comes in, and Bosch's open-source Carbyne Stack is leading the charge in bringing this powerful technology to the mainstream.
Carbyne Stack is an open-source cloud stack for building scalable Secure MPC applications. MPC allows multiple parties to jointly compute on their combined data without ever revealing their individual inputs to each other. Imagine collaborating on market research with competitors, analyzing healthcare data across hospitals, or jointly training AI models without sharing sensitive training sets. Carbyne Stack makes these scenarios possible.
How does it work?
Carbyne Stack utilizes advanced cryptographic techniques to distribute computations across multiple parties. Each party holds an opaque, cryptographically secure share of the data and performs computations on these shares. The results of these distributed computations are then combined to produce the final output, without ever revealing the underlying data to any individual party. This ensures data confidentiality and integrity throughout the process.
Open Source at its core
Bosch believes that open-source is crucial for fostering innovation and building trust in emerging technologies like MPC. By open-sourcing Carbyne Stack, we're empowering developers, researchers, and businesses to contribute to, adapt, and deploy the technology to address a wide range of use cases. This collaborative approach accelerates development, strengthens security through community scrutiny, and drives wider adoption of MPC.
The Bosch perspective: empowering trust and data sovereignty
For Bosch Research, Carbyne Stack represents a key component of trustworthy computing and data sovereignty. It aligns perfectly with our vision of a connected world where data can be shared and analyzed securely, fostering collaboration and innovation while protecting sensitive information. This is exemplified by our collaboration with SAP, where Carbyne Stack is being utilized to explore secure data analytics solutions. This allows businesses to gain valuable insights from combined datasets without compromising the confidentiality of their individual data.
A giant leap forward: joining the Linux Foundation Europe
In a significant development, Carbyne Stack has recently been welcomed into the Linux Foundation Europe. This move marks a major milestone for the project and underscores its growing importance in the open-source landscape. Being part of the Linux Foundation Europe provides Carbyne Stack with a neutral and collaborative environment to further its development, expand its community, and accelerate its adoption across industries. This prestigious affiliation will help solidify Carbyne Stack as the leading open-source platform for enterprise-grade MPC, paving the way for a future where secure data collaboration becomes the norm.