Secure Outsourcing of Storage and Computation

The rise of cloud technologies and the proliferation of mobile devices have revolutionized data storage and their processing. Amongst numerous benefits, cloud technologies offer a flexible way to outsource storage and computation to the cloud vendors. As a result, sensitive data often end up being managed on remote servers maintained by third party outsourcing vendors. Whence, despite being envisioned as a promising service for the future, security and privacy issues remain the major inhibiting factors towards a wide scale acceptance of cloud technologies in practice. The goal of this project is to improve upon existing cloud technologies and design scalable and practical solutions for new and emerging problems.

Faculty Supervisor:

Rei Safavi-Naini

Student:

Amrit Kumar

Partner:

Discipline:

Computer science

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University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink Research Award