The Phantom Zone

We spend numerous hours imagining the world we want to live in, imagining its bits and pieces that will be different. Imagining how we will shape it when we burst into action. Ruminating for hours thinking of new things it will have. And that’s what we have been doing at Gauss for last few months.

We have been building the Phantom zone. It’s similar to the zone where superman gets locked and observes everything outside the zone, but no one outside can see or hear superman. However, our phantom zone isn’t meant to lock anyone. Instead it’s meant to be a new zone in parallel to reality. It’s the zone to which you teleport yourself with others, take arbitrary actions, and only remember predefined set of memories when you’re back. It’s the zone where you can have conversations and forget undesirable parts, negotiate contracts and not leak strategies, play hidden information games, and many more. Think of the zone as a computer that erases itself off of the face of the earth after it returns necessary outputs, leaving no trace behind.

Phantom zone is built using multi-party fully homomorphic encryption and provide APIs to evaluate any arbitrary function on private inputs from multiple parties. At the moment, phantom zone is experimental and limited in its functionality. It restricts arbitrary functions to use unsigned 8 bit integers and only allows upto 8 parties. Despite the limitations, we want to release it because we believe phantom zone will unleash everyone’s imagination and enable new & unique user applications. More so, at our core, we believe we cannot build the phantom zone just by ourselves. We provide the tools, but it will be our creative imagination as a whole that will bring the phantom zone to reality.

We invite you to try the phantom zone and let your imaginative forces fly!

- Janmajaya