Security against the business partner

  • Authors:
  • Florian Kerschbaum;Rafael J. Deitos

  • Affiliations:
  • SAP Research, Karlsruhe, Germany;SAP Research, Karlsruhe, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 ACM workshop on Secure web services
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Security research has long focused on protecting against outside attackers. This was augmented with protection against insider threats, but recently networked business is emerging. With it a new threat is emerging: security against the business partner. A possible solution is secure multi-party computation (SMC) and we give examples of its usefulness. We show with the example of supply chain optimization that only SMC provides the necessary security guarantees. A major challenge of SMC is its practical realization. We give a detailed study and analysis of multi-party permutation and show the relations of the different theoretical complexities in this case. The paper concludes with a comparison of service-oriented architectures and SMC. We show several architectural differences that need to be overcome.