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Title

Ramifications of DARPA's Programming Computation on Encrypted Data Program / Martin C. Libicki, Olesya Tkacheva, Chaoling Feng, Brett Hemenway.

Author

Libicki, Martin C.

Publication

Santa Monica, California : RAND Corporation, [2014]

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Additional Authors

• Tkacheva, Olesya.
• Feng, Chaoling.
• Hemenway, Brett.
• United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Description

xx, 85 pages : color illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Programming Computation on Encrypted Data (PROCEED) is a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program whose primary purpose is to improve the efficiency of algorithms that allow people to carry out computations on encrypted data—without having to decrypt the data itself. RAND was asked to evaluate whether PROCEED—which expands the knowledge base of the global cryptographic community—is likely to provide more benefits to the United States than it does to its global rivals. The research team’s assessment focused on the degree to which PROCEED technologies may be adopted, under what circumstances, and for what purpose. The team then used the analytic framework generated to understand technological uptake decisions as a way of ascertaining how such factors would work in Russia and China vis-à-vis the United States (and, by extension, countries similar to the United States). Analysis of online searches for information about data encryption, information security, and data protection in Russia and China concluded that, given government approval of PROCEED technologies, their diffusion will be more rapid in China than in Russia. Whether PROCEED technologies will be adopted in the face of the processing penalties that will be associated with using them is difficult to determine at this time. If PROCEED is adopted, it is likely to be adopted more rapidly in the United States (and similar developed countries) than it is in Russia and China, in large part because PROCEED is compatible with the U.S. political culture, and in smaller part because it better accords to the U.S. business environment.

Subjects

• National security > Technological innovations > Evaluation
• Electronic data processing > Distributed processing > Security measures
• Data encryption (Computer science) > Technological innovations > Evaluation
• Privacy, Right of > United States
• National security > Technological innovations > United States
• Cyberspace > Security measures
• Computer security > Technological innovations > Evaluation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction -- The decision to use PROCEED technologies -- Trust and environments in Russia and China -- Where will PROCEED be taken up? -- Bibliography -- Figure 1: The relationship between trust and demand for PROCEED -- Technologies -- Figure 2: Information security consumers (%) -- Figure 3: Yandex search queries, 2011-2013 -- Figure 4: Google search trends, China 2006-2013 -- Figure 5: Searches for "homomorphic encryption" -- Table 1: How trust can improve delegation -- Table 2: Correlation between Yandex search queries and trust, Russia -- 2011-2013 -- Table 3: Correlation between Google search queries and trust, China -- 2009-2013.

Call Number

JFE 17-2649

ISBN

• 9780833085146
• 083308514X

LCCN

2014029694

OCLC

884882542

Author

Libicki, Martin C.

Title

Ramifications of DARPA's Programming Computation on Encrypted Data Program / Martin C. Libicki, Olesya Tkacheva, Chaoling Feng, Brett Hemenway.

Publisher

Santa Monica, California : RAND Corporation, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Connect to:

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR567.html

Added Author

Tkacheva, Olesya.

Feng, Chaoling.

Hemenway, Brett.

United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-2649