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Thomas Hardjono

Digital Identity, Trust and Privacy on the Internet

Smart Contracts

Posted on April 2, 2017 by thomas

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Blockchains: Evidence of Mediated Computation

In writing of the report of the Kantara BSC group (Blockchain and Smart Contracts) – a group that has been meeting bi-weekly for the past 7 months – we have come across numerous use-cases proposed by members who are looking closely at blockchain technology (or more generally from distributed ledger technology). To enable classification of these Read More

Posted on August 6, 2016 by thomas

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Query Smart Contracts: Bringing the Algorithm to the Data

One paradigm shift being championed by the MIT OPAL/Enigma community is that of using (sharing) algorithms that have been analyzed by experts and have been vetted to be “safe” from the perspective of privacy-preservation. The term “Open Algorithm” (OPAL) here implies that the vetted queries (“algorithms”) are made open by publishing them, allowing other experts to review Read More