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Privacy-Preserving Computation

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Privacy Technologies and Policy (APF 2012)

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Private data is commonly revealed to the party performing the computation on it. This poses a problem, particularly when outsourcing storage and computation, e.g., to the cloud. In this paper we present a review of security mechanisms and a research agenda for privacy-preserving computation. We begin by reviewing current application scenarios where computation faces privacy requirements. We then review existing cryptographic techniques for privacy-preserving computation. And last, we outline research problems that need to be solved for implementing privacy-preserving computations. Once addressed, privacy-preserving computations can quickly become a reality enhancing the privacy protection of citizens.

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Kerschbaum, F. (2014). Privacy-Preserving Computation. In: Preneel, B., Ikonomou, D. (eds) Privacy Technologies and Policy. APF 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8319. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54069-1_3

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