Practical State Machine Replication with Confidentiality

Sisi Duan, Haibin Zhang

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Abstract

We address the problem of how to store and process data privately in cloud environments that employ state machine replication. We show that the only known solution to the problem (Yin et al., SOSP '03) is potentially susceptible to attacks. We then present a new protocol that is secure in the stronger model we formalize. Our protocol uses only efficient symmetric cryptography, while Yin et al.'s uses costly threshold signatures. We implemented and evaluated our protocol. We show that our protocol is two to three orders of magnitude faster than Yin et al.'s, which is less secure than ours.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2016 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, SRDS 2016
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages187-196
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781509035137
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Dec 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event35th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, SRDS 2016 - Budapest, Hungary
Duration: 26 Sept 201629 Sept 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
ISSN (Print)1060-9857

Conference

Conference35th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, SRDS 2016
Country/TerritoryHungary
CityBudapest
Period26/09/1629/09/16

Keywords

  • Byzantine fault tolerance
  • confidentiality
  • state machine replication

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