Dissertation defense

Abstract

Security is vital for any distributed computing application running over a set of networked machines, some of which may possibly misbehave, due to misconfigurations, cost-cutting incentives, or after being compromised by an external attacker. In addition to protection against data breaches, eavesdropping, or data manipulation, caused by Attacker-In-The-Middle threats, data management and computations that are jointly performed by individual machines, should satisfy application-specific properties that relate to fairness, privacy