“Silent” Open-source Community Expands, Merging Six Major Technology Tracks to Drive Industry Applications

Sina Tech News, August 14th afternoon news, today, the "Silent" open-source community for trusted private computing announced an upgrade: from "trusted private computing open-source community" to "Silent · Data Trustworthy Flow Technology Community", which will gradually cover six major technology tracks, including privacy protection computing, trustworthy data space, data components, networked intelligence, blockchain, and scene, forming a multi-technology fusion. In the future, through open-source code, collaborative standards, and co-creation scenarios, provide one-stop, verifiable, and interconnected data flow technology foundation for multiple fields such as medicine, finance, city governance, manufacturing, etc.

Against the backdrop of the nationwide "Data Element ×" action speeding up, trusted data flow has transitioned from top-level design to a benchmark landing. However, in industry applications, there are still obstacles such as consensus difficulties, successful cases landing but technical implementation not unified and transparent, and high barriers to large-scale flow landing at the "last mile". Standardization is also difficult, with relevant documents and standards revised cycles long and granularities coarse, making it difficult to directly map to technical implementation scenarios. Application thresholds are also high, requiring certain periods of time for technology to be converted into usable and replicable production tools.

To address this issue, Ant Financial Group's Ant Trustworthy Computing, China Electronic Data Industry Association, National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center, Zhejiang University Blockchain and Data Security National Key Laboratory, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., and Beijing Jiaotong University, etc. have jointly launched this upgrade to build a comprehensive technology ecosystem covering trustworthy data space, data components, networked intelligence, blockchain, privacy protection computing, and scene, gradually opening code to the outside world, promoting cross-domain technical collaboration and standard co-creation.

The upgraded "Silent · Data Trustworthy Flow Technology Community" will aggregate data flow whole-stack technology, flexibly combining according to regional or industry needs, providing higher computing performance, supporting more types of computation, and solving traditional sandbox's inability to resist data breaches. The community will continue to iterate, promoting technical interoperability, providing safer, lower-cost data flow technology solutions, and better ecosystem compatibility.

Ant Trustworthy Computing Chairman and Silent Community Technical Committee Chairperson Wei Tao said, "Open-source is a great mode that has never been provided before in human history. This mode greatly accelerates the progress of the world digital revolution. We have released our trusted private computing framework to global developers since July 2022, supporting mainstream privacy computing technologies such as secure multi-party computation, federated learning, homomorphic encryption, and TEE, committed to technology diffusion and industry ecosystem co-creation."

"In the three years since our establishment, we have worked with partners in the academic and research community to build Silent into a leading open-source community. From protocols, codes, to industrial landing, we are committed to driving data flow technology development and application through actual actions. Today, at the node of our third anniversary, Silent upgrades by merging six major technology tracks, committed to building an 'architecture openness, transparency, native security, high-efficiency interconnectedness' technical community, continuing to open-source in a way that reduces the threshold for applying trusted data flow technology, providing higher performance, stronger security, and lower-cost technology solutions, and realizing technical interoperability and industrial standardization. We will empower key fields such as medicine, finance, city governance, manufacturing, etc., promoting data industry development."

Since July 2022, Ant Financial Group's trusted private computing core technology has been completely open-sourced. Currently, the "Silent" community links over 20,000 developers worldwide, 70+ universities and research institutions, 60+ industry partners. In industrial landing, Silent has achieved significant results in fields such as P2P lending, new energy vehicle insurance, etc. In public data development, Silent supports Hangzhou City's trustworthy computing center, Jiangxi Province's data flow infrastructure platform, etc., providing technical support for safe and trustworthy data flow.

Ant Financial Group has invested in privacy computing technology research since 2016, covering whole-stack trusted technology, multi-party secure computation, federated learning, homomorphic encryption, differential privacy, and secret computing. In the field of privacy computing, Ant Financial Group has applied for over 1700 patents, ranking first globally; led or participated in domestic and international standards exceeding 80 items, dominating 11 international standards.