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Confidentiality without Encryption For Cloud Computational Privacy
Advances in technology has given rise to new computing models where any
individual/organization (Cloud Service Consumers here by denoted as CSC's) can
outsource their computational intensive tasks on their data to a remote Cloud
Service Provider (CSP) for many advantages like lower costs, scalability etc.
But such advantages come for a bigger cost "Security and Privacy of data" for
this very reason many CSC's are skeptical to move towards cloud computing
models. While the advances in cryptography research are promising, there are no
practical solutions yet for performing any operations on encrypted data [1].
For this very reason there is strong need for finding alternative viable
solutions for us to benefit from Cloud Computing. A technique to provide
confidentiality without encryption was proposed in the past namely "Chaffing
and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption" by Ronald L. Rivest [2].
While this technique has been proposed for packet based communication system,
its not adaptable in all cloud service models like Software-as-Service,
Platform-as-Service or Infrastructure-as-Service [3]. In this paper we propose
an adaptation of this technique in a cloud computational setup where CSC's
outsource computational intensive tasks like web log parsing, DNA Sequencing
etc to a MapReduce like CSP service.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figure