Security News > 2022 > July > Alibaba affiliate Ant Group open sources its privacy software and a 'Secure Processing Unit'

Alibaba's financial services affiliate, Ant Group, has open sourced its "Privacy-preserving Computation Framework."

A "Secure Processing Unit" that offers a "Provable, measurable secure computation device, which provides computation ability while keeping your private data protected".

SecretFlow, which is designed to promote privacy during data analysis and machine learning efforts, was under development for six years and has been used internally at Ant Group already, as well as a few external organizations.

Ant Group's privacy computer general manager, Lei Wang, billed the endeavor as a zero-cost shortcut to privacy for developers.

The endeavor, titled the CCF-Ant Group Privacy Computing Special Fund, is in collaboration with professional organization China Computer Federation.

The cash will go to researching privacy computing, including post-quantum multiparty computation, and will be available worldwide.

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