Your app should not need every private detail to be useful
Encryption and access control protect the edges. The hard part is when your product needs sensitive context to score, match, train, or generate a key.
Usual stack
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Encrypt data at rest on the device
2
Encrypt it in transit to your server
3
Decrypt to run app logic
4
Your app becomes the place users have to trust
Stoffel stack
1
Encrypt data at rest on the device
2
Encrypt it in transit to your server
3
Compute over shares. Your logic runs across private shares.
4
Private details stay outside the app path
What teams try before Stoffel
Most alternatives protect where data rests or who can access it. Stoffel changes the step where your product computes on sensitive context.
Alternative
Where it helps
Where it stops
Encryption at rest / in transit
Protects storage and movement
The app still decrypts before it computes
Access control and consent
Limits who can use the system
The approved system may still see too much
Anonymization or policy promises
Supports reporting and review language
Joined datasets can make private details legible again
Bespoke MPC research
Can fit narrow custom protocols
Hard to make part of a normal dev loop
Stoffel changes the compute step.
Sensitive context becomes shares before your product computes. Your app opens only the data it needs.
Keep private details out of your app
Turn sensitive context into shares. Open only what your product needs.
Run the computation
StoffelVM runs the compiled program across the selected backend path and opens only the data the product needs.


Build the features users expect without collecting what they fear
Compute over shares. Open only the result. Keep private details out of your app.

AI / ML
Train together without pooling user data
Compute model updates over shares while private training data stays distributed.
Key management
Generate keys without one holder
Create and use key shares across teams or partners without one service holding the complete key.

Questions teams ask before they trust the architecture
Bring us one sensitive workflow. We’ll help you review privacy fit.
Isn’t encryption enough?
Encryption helps at rest and in transit. Stoffel is for the moment your product needs to compute over sensitive context without bringing all of it back into the app.
Will this slow the team down?
The goal is to make the first private workflow concrete. Start locally, check the logic, and use the MPC path when the product boundary is worth it.
Is this right for every workflow?
No. Stoffel is strongest when your app needs to compute on sensitive user context and open only a specific score, match, aggregate, key, or decision.
Do we need to become cryptographers?
No. The developer path is Stoffel Lang, the VM, and SDK calls your team can inspect. The cryptographic machinery supports the build path; it should not become the page’s first job.
What should we bring to Stoffel?
Bring one workflow where the app needs sensitive context but should not see the full private details. We’ll help map what stays private, what gets computed, and what opens back to the product.
