Secure and practical outsourcing of linear programming in cloud computing

—Cloud Computing has great potential of providing robust computational power to the society at reduced cost. It enables customers with limited computational resources to outsource their large computation workloads to the cloud, and economically enjoy the massive computational power, bandwidth, storage, and even appropriate software that can be shared in a pay-per-use manner. Despite the tremendous benefits, security is the primary obstacle that prevents the wide adoption of this promising computing model, especially for customers when their confidential data are consumed and produced during the computation. Treating the cloud as an intrinsically insecure computing platform from the viewpoint of the cloud customers, we must design mechanisms that not only protect sensitive information by enabling computations with encrypted data, but also protect customers from malicious behaviors by enabling the validation of the computation result. Such a mechanism of general secure computation ou...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: INFOCOM
• Authors: Cong Wang, Kui Ren, Jia Wang
• Keywords: Communications, INFOCOM 2011, Level Abstraction, Matrices And Vectors, Primary Obstacle