New Spy Tech Keeps Satellites From Bumping Into Each Other

An Estonian software team has invented a program that will allow countries (or private space companies) to keep their satellites from bumping into each other without revealing the location of their own eyes in the sky. Known as Sharemind, the program recently completed a prototype demonstration with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is funding the project with $700,000.

Sharemind uses a concept called “shared multi-party computation” that allows several users to combine and analyze secret data while keeping it that way.

“Sharemind is like a computer that does not see or understand the data,” said Dan Bogdanov, a researcher at the Tallinn-based software and IT firm Cybernetica. Read more...