A survey of cryptographic approaches to securing big-data analytics in the cloud
September 9, 2014
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HPEC 2014: IEEE Conf. on High Performance Extreme Computing, 9-11 September 2014.
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Summary
The growing demand for cloud computing motivates the need to study the security of data received, stored, processed, and transmitted by a cloud. In this paper, we present a framework for such a study. We introduce a cloud computing model that captures a rich class of big-data use-cases and allows reasoning about relevant threats and security goals. We then survey three cryptographic techniques - homomorphic encryption, verifiable computation, and multi-party computation - that can be used to achieve these goals. We describe the cryptographic techniques in the context of our cloud model and highlight the differences in performance cost associated with each.