Access privacy and correctness on untrusted storage

  • Authors:
  • Peter Williams;Radu Sion

  • Affiliations:
  • Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY;Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We introduce a new practical mechanism for remote data storage with access pattern privacy and correctness. A storage client can deploy this mechanism to issue encrypted reads, writes, and inserts to a potentially curious and malicious storage service provider, without revealing information or access patterns. The provider is unable to establish any correlation between successive accesses, or even to distinguish between a read and a write. Moreover, the client is provided with strong correctness assurances for its operations—illicit provider behavior does not go undetected. We describe a practical system that can execute an unprecedented several queries per second on terabyte-plus databases while maintaining full computational privacy and correctness.