Dan Bogdanov, a researcher at Cybernetica, won the open competition of master's and doctoral theses in the field of defence organised by the Ministry of Defence of Estonia. His PhD thesis "Sharemind: programmable secure computations with practical applications” won the first prize among PhD theses submitted to the MOD competition. The aim of the competition was to promote research and development in the field of defence, and to motivate young researchers to focus on the topics that are essential for defence and security.
Dan Bogdanov’s thesis presents Sharemind - a secure multy-party computation platform as a comprehensive solution for applications that process confidential information. The key concept of the platform is secret sharing that enables sharing data between stakeholders for aggregation without revealing the actual contents of such data. Sharemind uses cryptographic protocols to process data so that they cannot be understood even by the computing parties themselves. This ensures that multiple parties can process data and share the results securely.
Dan Bogdanov’s thesis can be downloaded here.