Efficient Data Sharing across Trust Domains

Abstract

Cross-Trust-Domain Processing. Data is now a commodity. We know how to compute and store it efficiently and reliably at scale. We have, however, paid less attention to the notion of trust. Yet, data owners today are no longer the entities storing or processing their data (medical records are stored on the cloud, data is shared across banks, etc.). In fact, distributed systems today consist of many different parties, whether it is cloud providers, jurisdictions, organisations or humans. Modern data processing and storage always straddles trust domains.