IEEE Releases First Global Standard for Privacy Computing Integrated Machine (IEEE 3156-2023)

Recently, the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE‑SA) officially released and implemented the world’s first privacy computing integrated machine international standard, “Privacy Computing Integrated Machine Technical Requirements” (IEEE 3156‑2023), led by Chinese enterprises. IEEE‑SA is an authoritative international standards body, and the successful publication signifies high international recognition of China’s privacy computing technology and applications, providing a reference solution globally.

The privacy computing integrated machine, as a crucial technological exploration for the deployment of privacy computing industry, builds a one‑stop privacy‑preserving computing solution from hardware, firmware, operating system to application software through a combination of software and hardware, offering out‑of‑the‑box, securely verifiable, privacy‑protecting data value flow services, attracting industry attention domestically and abroad.

The standard was driven by Ant Group and jointly compiled by 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.

It proposes standard solutions for reference architecture, functional, performance, and security requirements of privacy computing integrated machines, and offers recommendations across multiple layers such as hardware, system software, privacy protection protocols, and software applications.

IEEE experts unanimously believe that this standard can foster industry consensus on privacy computing integrated machines, raise the product maturity level, guide the industry to solve multi‑source data computation and value sharing challenges, and effectively reduce collaboration costs.

Privacy computing, as an emerging data security paradigm, has become a global technology focus.

Ant Group has been building privacy computing capabilities since 2016, covering secure multi‑party computation, homomorphic encryption, trusted execution environments, and has launched the open‑source framework “YinYu” and the integrated platform “Morse”, achieving large‑scale commercial deployments. To date, Ant Group has filed over 2,000 patents in the privacy computing field, ranking first globally for several consecutive years and participating in multiple international standards.

IEEE, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is the world’s largest nonprofit professional technical organization with over 400,000 members in more than 160 countries, having established over 1,300 industry standards across space, computing, telecommunications, biomedical fields, and serving as a core source for emerging technology standards.