CAREER: Practical Privacy for Outsourcing Systems

职业：外包系统的实用隐私

• 批准号: 0845192
• 负责人: Radu Sion
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0845192&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Practical; Privacy; Outsourcing; Systems

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). As computing becomes embedded in the very fabric of our society, theexponential growth and advances in cheap, high-speed communicationinfrastructures allow for unprecedented levels of global informationexchange and interaction. As a result, new market forces emerge that propeltoward a fundamental, cost-efficient paradigm shift in the way computing isdeployed and delivered: computing outsourcing.Outsourcing has the potential to minimize client-side management overheadsand benefit from a service provider's global expertise consolidation andbulk pricing. Companies such as Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and Sun are rushingto offer increasingly complex storage and computation outsourcing servicessupported by globally distributed "cloud" infrastructures.Yet significant challenges lie in the path to successful large-scaleadoption. In business, healthcare and government frameworks, clients arereluctant to place sensitive data under the control of a remote, third-party provider, without practical assurances of privacy and confidentiality.Today's solutions however, do not offer such assurances, and are thusfundamentally insecure and vulnerable to illicit behavior. Existing researchaddresses several aspects of this problem, but advancing the state of theart to practical realms will require a fundamental leap.This project addresses these challenges by designing, implementing andanalyzing practical data outsourcing protocols with strong assurances ofprivacy and confidentiality. It will also l initiate the exploration of the cost and energyfootprints of outsourcing mechanisms. This is essential as the main raisond'etre of outsourcing paradigms lies in their assumed end-to-end costsavings and expertise consolidation. Yet, research has yet to explore andvalidate the magnitudes of these savings and their underlying assumptions.

该奖项根据 2009 年《美国复苏和再投资法案》（公法 111-5）提供资金。随着计算嵌入到我们社会的结构中，廉价、高速通信基础设施的指数级增长和进步使得全球信息交换和互动达到了前所未有的水平。因此，出现了新的市场力量，推动计算部署和交付方式发生根本性的、经济高效的范式转变：计算外包。外包有可能最大限度地减少客户端管理费用，并从服务提供商的全球专业知识整合和批量定价中受益。谷歌、雅虎、亚马逊和Sun等公司正争相提供由全球分布式“云”基础设施支持的日益复杂的存储和计算外包服务。然而，成功大规模采用的道路上存在重大挑战。在商业、医疗保健和政府框架中，如果没有实际的隐私和机密性保证，客户不愿意将敏感数据置于远程第三方提供商的控制之下。然而，当今的解决方案不提供此类保证，因此从根本上来说是不安全且脆弱的到非法行为。现有的研究解决了这个问题的几个方面，但将最先进的技术推进到实际领域需要根本性的飞跃。该项目通过设计、实施和分析实用的数据外包协议来解决这些挑战，并强有力地保证隐私和机密性。 它还将启动对外包机制的成本和能源足迹的探索。这是至关重要的，因为外包模式的主要存在理由在于其假定的端到端成本节约和专业知识整合。然而，研究尚未探索和验证这些节省的规模及其基本假设。