JOCONDE (Joint On-demand COmputation with No Data Exchange) is a project carried out by Eurostat in collaboration with Cybernetica to foster the adoption of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET) in the European Statistical System.
About the Project
The project motivations, vision and goals are presented in the paper Steps Toward a Shared Infrastructure for Multi-Party Secure Private Computing in Official Statistics published in the Journal of Official Statistics (March 2024).
The project was started in April 2024 following an open call for tender for the Specification, feasibility analysis and prototype demonstration of a multi-party secure private computing system for processing confidential sets of micro-data across organisations in support of statistical innovation (call documents are available on the eTendering platform here). The planned duration of the project is 24 months, closing in March 2026.
Related presentations
- The JOCONDE project. Talk given at Global PETs Network, 21/1/2025
- Towards a Shared Infrastructure for Multi-Party Secure Private Computing in the ESS: the JOCONDE project - Talk given at UN PET Lab meeting 22/11/2024
- When GDPR met COED … (a tale of two made one for the other) - Talk given at the Computing over Encrypted Data (COED) Industry Day, KU Leuven, 10/10/2023.
- Towards a shared European Statistical System infrastructure for collaborative confidential computing - Talk given an INEXDA meeting 1/12/2023.
- Beyond the lab: How Multi-Party Secure Private Computing-as-a-service (MPSPCaaS) can foster the adoption of Input Privacy technologies in the ESS - Talk given at the Working Group on Methodology meeting, 28/3/2023.
Other presentations are available from the PET4OS page.
Technical approach
The envisioned system is based on a full overlay of MPC over TEE. Some architectural elements are anticipated in this presentation. The complete architecture will be detailed in the forthcoming deliverables.
Project deliverables
- D1.1 - Usage Scenarios and System Requirements (download)
- D2.1 - Technology Survey and Analysis (download)
- D3.1 - Initial Legal Analysis (under preparation)
- D4.1 - System Specification and Architecture - first version (under preparation).
Other information
For an overview of the activities by Eurostat in the field of Privacy Enhancing Technologies for in Official Statistics visit the PET4OS page.
JOCONDE - The art and beauty of secure multiparty computation