Visible to the public Hardware Support for Secure Stream Processing in Cloud Environments

TitleHardware Support for Secure Stream Processing in Cloud Environments
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsAnderson, Jeff, El-Ghazawi, Tarek
Conference NameProceedings of the Computing Frontiers Conference
PublisherACM
Conference LocationNew York, NY, USA
ISBN Number978-1-4503-4487-6
Keywordshomomorphic mac, Metrics, network on chip security, network-on-a-chip, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, Scalability, Secure Processing, stream processing
AbstractMany-core microprocessor architectures are quickly becoming prevalent in data centers, due to their demonstrated processing power and network flexibility. However, this flexibility comes at a cost; co-mingled data from disparate users must be kept secure, which forces processor cycles to be wasted on cryptographic operations. This paper introduces a novel, secure, stream processing architecture which supports efficient homomorphic authentication of data and enforces secrecy of individuals' data. Additionally, this architecture is shown to secure time-series analysis of data from multiple users from both corruption and disclosure. Hardware synthesis shows that security-related circuitry incurs less than 10% overhead, and latency analysis shows an increase of 2 clocks per hop. However, despite the increase in latency, the proposed architecture shows an improvement over stream processing systems that use traditional security methods.
URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3075564.3075592
DOI10.1145/3075564.3075592
Citation Keyanderson_hardware_2017