Technology

CipherMode Labs uses secure multiparty computation (SMPC) as the underlying cryptographic technology for its groundbreaking solutions.

Let’s compare and contrast to other technologies:

Computation Speed

Functionality

Integration

Security Guarantees

Homomorphic Encryption

Computation overhead increases exponentially

Limited to just polynomial functions so cannot handle arbitrary computation

Very complicated integration and security parameter processes

No Security Standards

Trusted execution environments (enclaves)

Supports of subset of functionality; scalability challenges

Low computational overhead so high speed

Complicated end-to-end integration

Several well-known flaws; requires trust of manufacturer (Intel, AMD)

Tokenisation

Limited

Very complex to integrate into existing applications

Single point of failure with a token vault

Federate
Learning

Limited to just AI training

Proven to leak data between model updates; does not operate on encrypted data

Differential Privacy

Traditional
at-rest
or in-motion encryption

Limited in that noise is introduced so analyses are degraded

Cannot be used in computation

Fast compared to other alternatives

Cannot be used in computation so only good to protect at rest or in motion

Relatively simple to integrate

Proven security guarantees for at-rest or in-motion encryption

Ciphermode

Orders of magnitude faster than homomorphic encryption but slower than enclaves

Easy to implement – requires no crypto knowledge

Can support any computation type

Proven guarantee since based off AES-256

Ciphermode

Homomorphic Encryption

Trusted execution environments (enclaves)

Tokenisation

Computation Speed

Federate
Learning

Differential Privacy

Traditional
at-rest
or in-motion encryption

Functionality

Integration

Computation overhead increases exponentially

Low computational overhead so high speed

Very complicated integration and security parameter processes

Complicated end-to-end integration

Fast compared to other alternatives

Cannot be used in computation

Very complex to integrate into existing applications

Security Guarantees

Orders of magnitude faster than homomorphic encryption but slower than enclaves

Easy to implement – requires no crypto knowledge

Can support any computation type

Supports of subset of functionality; scalability challenges

Limited

Cannot be used in computation so only good to protect at rest or in motion

Limited in that noise is introduced so analyses are degraded

Limited to just AI training

Proven guarantee since based off AES-256

Limited to just polynomial functions so cannot handle arbitrary computation

No Security Standards

Several well-known flaws; requires trust of manufacturer (Intel, AMD)

Single point of failure with a token vault

Relatively simple to integrate

Proven to leak data between model updates; does not operate on encrypted data

Proven security guarantees for at-rest or in-motion encryption

Heading goes over here

CipherMode uses secure multiparty computation for secure data sharing. This is a technology that has been around for decades and three Turing award winners actually built the foundation of SMPC. What CipherMode did was not to create a new protocol of SMPC; rather new intermediate protocols were developed with ease-of-use and speed in mind to obscure cryptographic knowledge from end users while ensuring fast computation times. The key breakthrough occurred in circuit translation where CipherMode has created new ways to translating computation into circuits to optimize for speed.

These breakthroughs are based on 10 years of academic research and dozens of leading computer science papers that have been heavily cite.

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Why now?

It is fair to assume that CipherMode is so fast because of Moore’s Law and connectivity improvements. However, even if you add up the computation speed from these two factors, it’s still many times slower than what CipherMode can do today. Instead, CipherMode’s breakthrough take what used to be impossible or impractical and made it reality…