Hardware Assisted Security in Cloud Computing

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• Hung Chen (Imperial College)
• Wednesday 29 August 2012, 11:00-12:00
• Level 9 Mahanakorn Lab., EE Dept..

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Cloud Computing has been an emerging on-demand computing model that can benefit users from saving their investment on physical infrastructure. Its security becomes a major concern for users to offload their sensitive data to the Cloud. Although there are a lot of security protection focusing on software layers, especially hypervisor, it seems that it still can’t prevent the system administrator of the cloud sever, who has the highest privilege in accessing the system, to read or tamper the users’ outsourced data. In this talk, I will describe my project in addressing this security issue. The main idea is to protect the outsourced data by encryption and ensure that the cloud administrators have no way to decrypt the data. I will first introduce my initial project idea of Secure Processor – a processor design by embedding a pair of encryption and decryption engines inside the processor at the gateway between CPU and main memory. Another idea of building a novel processor or hardware accelerator on supporting operations of CryptDB (a database system that support operations on encrypted data) will also be discussed.

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