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Querying Over Encrypted Databases In A Cloud Environment, Jake Douglas
Querying Over Encrypted Databases In A Cloud Environment, Jake Douglas
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
The adoption of cloud computing has created a huge shift in where data is processed and stored. Increasingly, organizations opt to store their data outside of their own network to gain the benefits offered by shared cloud resources. With these benefits also come risks; namely, another organization has access to all of the data. A malicious insider at the cloud services provider could steal any personal information contained on the cloud or could use the data for the cloud service provider's business advantage. By encrypting the data, some of these risks can be mitigated. Unfortunately, encrypting the data also means …