Research corpus Confidential computeBLC-STUDY-0058

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.

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Authors: Guy Zyskind, Oz Nathan, Alex Pentland
Date: 2015
Publisher: Guy Zyskind, Oz Nathan, Alex Pentland
Version: Source cited by the 2015 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0058
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Zyskind, G., Nathan, O., & Pentland, A. (2015). Enigma: Decentralized Computation Platform with Guaranteed Privacy. Guy Zyskind, Oz Nathan, Alex Pentland. https://enigma.co/enigma_full.pdf

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@techreport{enigma2015,
  title = {Enigma: Decentralized Computation Platform with Guaranteed Privacy},
  author = {Guy Zyskind, Oz Nathan, Alex Pentland},
  year = {2015},
  institution = {Guy Zyskind, Oz Nathan, Alex Pentland},
  url = {https://enigma.co/enigma_full.pdf},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/enigma}
}

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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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