PrivatePond: Outsourced Management of Web Corpuses

With the rise of cloud computing, it is increasingly attractive for end-users (organizations and individuals) to outsource the management of their data to a small number of largescale service providers. In this paper, we consider a user who wants to outsource storage and search for a corpus of web documents (e.g., an intranet). At the same time, the corpus may contain confidential documents that the organization does not want to reveal to the service provider. While past work has considered the problems of secure keyword search and secure indexing, all of the proposed tools require significant modifications to existing search engines and infrastructure. In this paper, we propose a system called PrivatePond, which allows confidential outsourced web search using an unmodified search engine. The system is built around the central idea of a secure indexable representation, which is attached to each document in the corpus, and constructed with the goal of balancing confidentiality an...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: WEBDB
• Authors: Daniel Fabbri, Arnab Nandi, Kristen LeFevre, H. V. Jagadish
• Keywords: Internet Technology, Search Engine, Secure Indexable Representation, Service Provider, WEBDB 2009