Nikhil Sharma

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2019-77

May 17, 2019

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2019/EECS-2019-77.pdf

This work proposes Sentinel, a new architecture for decentralized data governance. In a world with growing privacy concerns, it becomes increasingly necessary for data management systems to be trust-free to end users. This paper describes and provides empirical results for enabling data analytics over statistical databases containing sensitive data without requiring any centralized trust and without compromising user privacy. Using smart contracts for decentralized verification of data access policies and trusted execution enclaves (TEEs) for secure computation, this architecture describes a scalable solution for achieving this, supporting the goals of data providers and data consumers alike.

Advisors: Dawn Song

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BibTeX citation:

@mastersthesis{Sharma:EECS-2019-77,
    Author= {Sharma, Nikhil},
    Title= {Sentinel: A System for Decentralized Data Governance},
    School= {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
    Year= {2019},
    Month= {May},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2019/EECS-2019-77.html},
    Number= {UCB/EECS-2019-77},
    Abstract= {This work proposes Sentinel, a new architecture for decentralized data governance. In a world with growing privacy concerns, it becomes increasingly necessary for data management systems to be trust-free to end users. This paper describes and provides empirical results for enabling data analytics over statistical databases containing sensitive data without requiring any centralized trust and without compromising user privacy. Using smart contracts for decentralized verification of
data access policies and trusted execution enclaves (TEEs) for secure computation, this architecture describes a scalable solution for achieving this, supporting the goals of data providers and data
consumers alike.},
}

EndNote citation:

%0 Thesis
%A Sharma, Nikhil 
%T Sentinel: A System for Decentralized Data Governance
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2019
%8 May 17
%@ UCB/EECS-2019-77
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2019/EECS-2019-77.html
%F Sharma:EECS-2019-77