Cryptography for Big Data

Abstract

Everything we do in our lives leaves (or will soon leave) a digital trace, which we and otherscan analyze. These advances in capturing and analyzing big data allow us to sequencehuman DNA in minutes, find cures for cancer, accurately predict human behavior, and somuch more. However, significant concerns about the privacy of such systems have beenraised. We envision a world where all these applications can be realized while preservingindividual privacy.Cryptographic techniques are customarily devised for boolean circuits, which are prohibitivelyslow for applications that work on large datasets. For example, doing binarysearch using boolean circuits leads to an exponential slowdown. Building on preliminaryresults, which show considerable promise of the approach, the proposed effort aims to obtaincryptographic constructions for big data applications.

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
May 02, 2017
Source ID
FA95501710400

Entities

People

  • Sanjam Garg

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • United States Air Force
  • University of California Regents

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Computer Engineering
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Educational Psychology

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Cyber - Cryptography
  • Cyber - Quantum