Past few years have witnessed a dramatic shift for IT infrastructures from a self-sustained model to a centralized and multi-tenant elastic computing paradigm -- Cloud Computing, which significantly reshapes the landscape of existing data utilization services. In truth, public cloud service providers (CSPs), e.g. Google, Amazon, offer us unprecedented benefits, such as ubiquitous and flexible access, considerable capital expenditure savings and on-demand resource allocation. Cloud has become the virtual ``brain" as well to support and propel many important applications and system designs, for example, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and so forth; on the flip side, security and privacy are among the primary concerns with the adoption of cloud-based data services in that the user loses control of her/his outsourced data. Encrypting the sensitive user information certainly ensures the confidentiality. However, encryption places an extra layer of ambiguity and its direct use may be at odds with the practical requirements and defeat the purpose of cloud computing technology. We believe that security in nature should not be in contravention of the cloud outsourcing model. Rather, it is expected to complement the current achievements to further fuel the wide adoption of the public cloud service. This, in turn, requires us not to decouple them from the very beginning of the system design. Drawing the successes and failures from both academia and industry, we attempt to answer the challenges of realizing efficient and useful secure data services in the public cloud. In particular, we pay attention to security and privacy in two essential functions of the cloud ``brain", i.e. data storage and processing. Our first work centers on the secure chunk-based deduplication of encrypted data for cloud backup and achieves the performance comparable to the plaintext cloud storage deduplication while effectively mitigating the information leakage from the low-entropy chunks. On the other hand, we comprehensively study the promising yet challenging issue of search over encrypted data in the cloud environment, which allows a user to delegate her/his search task to a CSP server that hosts a collection of encrypted files while still guaranteeing some measure of query privacy. In order to accomplish this grand vision, we explore both software-based secure computation research that often relies on cryptography and concentrates on algorithmic design and theoretical proof, and trusted execution solutions that depend on hardware-based isolation and trusted computing. Hopefully, through the lens of our efforts, insights could be furnished into future research in the related areas. / Ph. D.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/84396 |
| Date | 25 July 2018 |
| Creators | Sun, Wenhai |
| Contributors | Computer Science, Lou, Wenjing, Hou, Yiwei Thomas, Zhang, Yanchao, Chen, Ing-Ray, Wang, Gang Alan |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | ETD, application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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