Paper 2015/919

Privacy-preserving computation with trusted computing via Scramble-then-Compute

Hung Dang, Anh Dinh, Ee-Chien Chang, and Beng Chin Ooi

Abstract

We consider privacy-preserving computation of big data using trusted computing primitives with limited private memory. Simply ensuring that the data remains encrypted outside the trusted computing environment is insufficient to preserve data privacy, for data movement observed during computation could leak information. While it is possible to thwart such leakage using generic solution such as ORAM [43], designing efficient privacy-preserving algorithms is challenging. Besides computation efficiency, it is critical to keep trusted code bases lean, for large ones are unwieldy to vet and verify. In this paper, we advocate a simple approach wherein many basic algorithms (e.g., sorting) can be made privacy-preserving by adding a step that securely scrambles the data before feeding it to the original algorithms. We call this approach Scramble-then-Compute (StC), and give a sufficient condition whereby existing external memory algorithms can be made privacy-preserving via StC. This approach facilitates code-reuse, and its simplicity contributes to a smaller trusted code base. It is also general, allowing algorithm designers to leverage an extensive body of known efficient algorithms for better performance. Our experiments show that StC could offer up to 4.1× speedups over known, application-specific alternatives.

Note: This is an updated version of the report 2015/919

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Publication info
Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords
privacy-preservingoutsourced databasetrusted computing
Contact author(s)
hungdang @ comp nus edu sg
History
2017-02-20: withdrawn
2015-09-22: received
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https://ia.cr/2015/919
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY
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