Timeline of Related Events

  • 1984, Robert Axelrod publishes “The Evolution of Cooperation” wherein he discovers the conditions which promote or discourage cooperation between independent, competing agents. When the need emerges, this landmark research in political science guides the development of Blind Encrypted Data Matching in the field of data analysis.
  • 2001, In-Q-Tel invests in S.R.D., a Nevada corporation, to develop its product for analysis/discovery from encrypted data.
  • 2005, IBM acquires S.R.D. and productizes its software offering it under the name “Anonymous Resolution” plus additional integrations with other products.
  • 2007, WWN Software LLC, a Delaware corporation, begins developing software for Blind Encrypted Data Matching. The software affords the features needed for cooperation to evolve between independent actors and incorporates better encryption than the IBM product.
  • 2009, WWN forks an Open Source Software branch of its code under the project name of “Pygar Project”. This code will eventually become the starting point for the code of OpenBEDM.
  • 2010, The US Patent Office grants WWN Software patent number 7,685,073 (valid through 2024) for a business process using blind agents to negotiate over encrypted information.
  • 2011, MIT’s CSAIL Computer Systems Security Group develops and tests CryptDB software which processes SQL queries on encrypted data and returns encrypted results.
  • 2015, WWN discontinues support for the “Pygar Project”.
  • 2016, Project Callisto (projectcallisto.org) launches to provide encrypted data and matching services to identify and stop sexual predators.
  • 2016, the emeritus software architect from WWN compiles and reviews the experience of 8 years of marketing and software development for blind encrypted data matching. The result is an open source book “The Third Way to Data Privacy and Sharing – Concepts, Tools, Applications”.
  • 2018, IBM discontinues support for Anonymous Resolution.
  • 2024, Web site openbedm.org opens to publish documentation including the draft book and the code artifacts from the Pygar Project open source software effort.