I-Corps: Secure and efficient outsourcing of computation on private data

鉴于社会对信息技术的依赖，各种加密产品的商业影响是显而易见的。所提出的“同态”加密方法可以帮助公司和个人在各种电子交互中保护其数据的隐私，特别是在共享的公共基础设施(如云)中进行的交互。I-Corps团队建议的加密方法以比现有方法更低的计算成本(因此，更快、更便宜)为云用户提供安全保护。该项目可以服务的潜在细分市场包括：(1)医院和医疗提供商或医疗保险公司，他们没有资源维护自己的数据存储，但希望进行统计分析、流程计费等；以及(2)将计算或存储外包给云的小型设备制造商。该项目解决了云中的隐私问题。在这个项目中，这个团队提出了可以与客户在两个主要领域的特定需求相结合的加密软件：云存储/计算和密钥正在消失的云计算。这项提议的主要目标是探索构建同态加密的新途径和新方法，其主要动机是设计比已知方案更有效的方案，因此将具有实用和商业价值。这不仅仅是改进现有方案的问题，还需要一种全新的、不同的方法，一种可能导致对这一研究领域的进一步洞察和理解的方法。

Given society's dependence on information technology, the commercial impact of a variety of cryptographic products is clear. The proposed 'homomorphic'encrypton methods can help companies and individuals protect privacy of their data in various electronic interactions, especially those carried out in a shared public infrastructure such as a Cloud. The I-Corps team's proposed cryptographic encryption methods provide the security for Cloud users at a lower computation cost (hence, faster and cheaper) than existing methods. Some of the potential segments that can be served by this project are: (1) hospital and medical providers or medical insurance companies who do not have the resources to maintain their own data storage but want to do statistical analysis, process billing, etc; and (2) manufacturers of small devices that outsource computations or storage to the cloud.This project addresses privacy issues in the Cloud. In this project, this team forwards cryptographic encryption software that can integrate with clients' specific needs in two main areas: cloud storage/computing and cloud computing with 'vanishing' key. The main goal of this proposal is to explore new avenues and new approaches for the construction of homomorphic encryption, with the primary motivation of designing schemes that would be substantially more efficient than the known ones, and therefore would have practical and commercial value. This is not just a matter of improving the existing schemes but requires a totally new and different approach, one that could lead to further insights and understanding of this research field.