Microsoft and IBM create a cloud computing lie detector
June 5, 2013
Grazed from Geek. Author: Ryan Whitman.
There was a time, not that long ago, when most users managed their own data. Now faster internet connections and cloud services offer not only storage, but data processing. But how can companies looking to crunch data in the cloud know it’s being done correctly? A new piece of software developed by Microsoft and IBM aims to tell you if the cloud is lying about the sanctity of your data.
The software is amusingly dubbed “Pinocchio”, and is being billed as a lie detector for the cloud. At its most basic level, Pinocchio could be used to verify that a cloud service did what was instructed with a data set. Alternatively, it could alert you if the service was somehow compromised, thus altering the results…
Pinocchio math
Pinocchio works by taking a set of operations written in the C programming language and translating them into a version with embedded verification code. The new set is provided to a cloud service performing calculations. The verification key produced by the conversion process can be checked when results are sent back by the cloud service, ensuring the requested operations were actually completed…
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