{"document_id":"BLC-STUDY-0058","slug":"enigma","title":"Enigma: Decentralized Computation Platform with Guaranteed Privacy","authors":"Guy Zyskind, Oz Nathan, Alex Pentland","year":2015,"date_label":"2015","publisher":"Guy Zyskind, Oz Nathan, Alex Pentland","paper_type":"Design paper","category":"Confidential compute","topics":["Confidential compute"],"source_url":"https://enigma.co/enigma_full.pdf","source_label":"Enigma paper","legacy_pdf_path":null,"sha256":null,"sha256_note":"No hash is published. This build does not store those PDF bytes, so a checksum would be invented. Where a legacy path exists, it points at the Internet Archive copy of the old library.","version":"Source cited by the 2015 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.","doi":null,"rights_status":"Official external source only","source_status":"Official source","use_status":"Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.","licence":null,"licence_label":"No licence recorded. Rights status under review.","full_text":null,"full_text_reason":"Full text is not published on this page. Public availability is not a licence to republish a document. Blockchain Lab has not recorded a licence that permits an HTML transcription, a training set, or a retrieval corpus of the paper. Text on this page is Blockchain Lab's own wording, or a pointer to a study that is also Blockchain Lab's wording.","editorial_line":"The 2015 Enigma paper from MIT: private contracts executed over secret-shared data, so nodes compute without seeing the raw inputs. Secret Network is a later project in this lineage, using different machinery. This page is about the Enigma paper, which the historic library does not hold.","canonical_url":"https://blockchainlab.com/whitepaper/enigma","record_url":"https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/enigma","study_url":"https://blockchainlab.com/whitepaper/enigma","last_reviewed":"2026-10-01","last_checked":"2026-10-01","relationships":[{"rel":"Canonical reading","label":"Secret Network study","href":"/whitepaper/enigma"},{"rel":"Related paper","label":"Oasis","href":"/whitepaper/ekiden"},{"rel":"Related paper","label":"Zerocash","href":"/whitepaper/zerocash"},{"rel":"Related paper","label":"Ocean","href":"/whitepaper/ocean"}]}