Recently, the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) officially released and implemented the world's first international standard for a privacy computing appliance, titled "Technical Requirements for Privacy Computing Appliances" (IEEE 3156-2023), led by Chinese enterprises. IEEE-SA is an authoritative international standards organization. The successful release of this standard signifies that China's exploration and application of privacy computing technology have received high international recognition, providing a reference for the global community.
(Image: Official website of the IEEE Standards Association releases "Technical Requirements for Privacy Computing All-in-One Machines" as an international standard)
The Privacy Computing All-in-One Machine, serving as a pivotal technological exploration for the implementation of the privacy computing industry, integrates software and hardware to offer a one-stop privacy-protected computing solution that spans hardware, firmware, operating systems, to application software. It provides a plug-and-play, security-verifiable, and privacy-protected data circulation service, garnering attention both domestically and internationally.
Information reveals that the newly released international standard was propelled by Ant Group, with the collaboration of nearly 20 entities including the Institute of Information Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, and China Electronics Standardization Institute.
The standard proposes standard solutions for the reference architecture, functional requirements, performance requirements, and security requirements of the Privacy Computing All-in-One Machine, and offers recommendations across multiple levels including hardware, system software, privacy protection protocols, and software applications. IEEE experts unanimously agree that this standard will help the industry reach a consensus on the Privacy Computing All-in-One Machine, elevate the product's quality, guide the industry in utilizing these machines to solve the challenges of multi-source data computing and value sharing, and effectively reduce collaboration costs.
Privacy computing, as an emerging data security technology paradigm, has become a focal point in the global tech landscape. Public records show that Ant Group has been developing privacy computing technologies since 2016, covering multi-party secure computing, homomorphic encryption, trusted execution environments, and more. They have launched products like the trusted privacy computing open-source framework "AntChain" and the integrated privacy computing platform, achieving large-scale commercial applications. To date, Ant Group has filed over 2000 patent applications in the field of privacy computing, ranking first globally for several consecutive years, and has participated in the drafting of multiple international standards for privacy computing.
IEEE, standing for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is currently the world's largest non-profit professional technical society, with more than 400,000 members in over 160 countries worldwide. IEEE has developed more than 1300 industry standards in areas such as space, computing, telecommunications, and biomedical engineering, making it a core source of standards in emerging technology fields.
