Protocol papers
Confidential compute papers.
Confidentiality of state is not confidentiality against the party who is supposed to receive the output.
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Each card opens a study. The study is a reading of a public paper, not the paper and not a description of today's network. Status is a design paper unless the record says historical or failure case.
How to read this page
Research status is named on the page. Primary sources are linked. This is a mechanism and operating note, not investment suitability, legal advice, a security guarantee or an implementation certificate.
Secret Network · 2015 · Design paper
Enigma: Decentralized Computation Platform with Guaranteed Privacy
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.
Oasis · 2019 · Design paper
Ekiden: A Platform for Confidentiality-Preserving, Trustworthy, and Performant Smart Contracts
The Ekiden paper: smart contracts that execute inside trusted hardware, with the ledger checking attestations rather than re-executing the private code. Oasis Network is the later production system in this line. The paper is the academic statement of the approach.