Department of Engineering
for Innovation
Department of Engineering
for Innovation
CORE Lab
Projects
The mission of PRACTICE (GA 609611) is to design cloud computing tech¬nologies that allow computations in the cloud while keeping the input data secret thus enabling new business processes. Unlike today – where process participants can access sensitive data – PRACTICE will prevent cloud providers and other unauthor¬ized parties from obtaining secret or sensitive information.
Information processed by businesses, government organizations and individuals often comes with confidentiality and integrity requirements that the processing party must adhere to.
Cloud services promise great benefits in terms of financial savings, easy and convenient access to data and services, as well as business agility. Organizations and individuals outsource their data to the cloud, where an untrusted party is in charge of storage and computation. A major concern for the adoption of cloud computing is the inability of the cloud to build user trust in the information security measures deployed in cloud services. Common computing techniques cannot be applied on encrypted data, and therefore the data and the applications that compute on the data must be decrypted before being run in the cloud infrastructure.
A comprehensive solution for securing the cloud computing infrastructure can be based on cryptographic mechanisms of secure computation. These mechanisms support computation on encrypted data. Several settings need secure computation.
PRACTICE will address all of these settings:
• Hiding user data from other users of the same cloud service.
• Hiding user data from the cloud provider.
• Securing computation between several servers.
• Securing computation between untrusting parties
Role: Scientific leader for Research Unit "Centro Cultura Innovativa di Impresa" of the University of Salento