Advances in AI and big data analytics rely on data sharing, which can be impeded by privacy concerns. Most challenging in privacy protection is protection of data-in-use, since even encrypted data needs to be decrypted before it can be utilized, thereby exposing data content to unauthorized parties. A practical and scalable solution to the challenge will transform computing, enabling unprecedented capabilities such as confidential outsourcing, trusted computing services, and confidential or privacy-preserving collaboration. In quest of such a holy grail of data protection, The Center for Distributed Confidential Computing (CDCC) is established by the National Science Foundation as multi-institution and multi-disciplinary center to create a research, education, knowledge transfer and workforce development environment that enables scalable, practical, verifiable and usable data-in-use protection based upon Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) on today and tomorrow’s cloud and edge systems.
“Data-in-use protection is considered to be a holy grail of data protection.”
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We are seeking multiple post-docs and research assistants!