Securing cloud-based computations against malicious providers

  • Authors:
  • Adil Bouti;Jörg Keller

  • Affiliations:
  • FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany;FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st European Workshop on Dependable Cloud Computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Security in clouds often focuses on preventing clients from gaining information about other clients' computations. However, cloud providers might also be a source for loss of confidentiality. We present a protocol to delegate computations into clouds with encrypted data. The protocol is based on homomorphic properties of encryption algorithms. The protocol can also be used to amend existing applications by software patches of binaries. We evaluate the protocol by a proof-of-concept implementation to investigate practicability, and discuss variants and extensions to increase the prototype's efficiency.