Fast Networks for High-Performance Distributed Trust

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Main Authors: Liu, Yicheng, Ostrovsky, Rafail, Shenker, Scott, Kumar, Sam
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author Liu, Yicheng
Ostrovsky, Rafail
Shenker, Scott
Kumar, Sam
author_facet Liu, Yicheng
Ostrovsky, Rafail
Shenker, Scott
Kumar, Sam
contents Organizations increasingly need to collaborate by performing a computation on their combined dataset, while keeping their data hidden from each other. Certain kinds of collaboration, such as collaborative data analytics and AI, require a level of performance beyond what current cryptographic techniques for distributed trust can provide. This is because the organizations run software in different trust domains, which can require them to communicate over WANs or the public Internet. In this paper, we explore how to instead run such applications using fast datacenter-type LANs. We show that, by carefully redesigning distributed trust frameworks for LANs, we can achieve up to order-of-magnitude better performance than naïvely using a LAN. Then, we develop deployment models for Distributed But Proximate Trust (DBPT) that allow parties to use a LAN while remaining physically and logically distinct. These developments make secure collaborative data analytics and AI significantly more practical and set new research directions for developing systems and cryptographic theory for high-performance distributed trust.
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spellingShingle Fast Networks for High-Performance Distributed Trust
Liu, Yicheng
Ostrovsky, Rafail
Shenker, Scott
Kumar, Sam
Cryptography and Security
Networking and Internet Architecture
Operating Systems
Organizations increasingly need to collaborate by performing a computation on their combined dataset, while keeping their data hidden from each other. Certain kinds of collaboration, such as collaborative data analytics and AI, require a level of performance beyond what current cryptographic techniques for distributed trust can provide. This is because the organizations run software in different trust domains, which can require them to communicate over WANs or the public Internet. In this paper, we explore how to instead run such applications using fast datacenter-type LANs. We show that, by carefully redesigning distributed trust frameworks for LANs, we can achieve up to order-of-magnitude better performance than naïvely using a LAN. Then, we develop deployment models for Distributed But Proximate Trust (DBPT) that allow parties to use a LAN while remaining physically and logically distinct. These developments make secure collaborative data analytics and AI significantly more practical and set new research directions for developing systems and cryptographic theory for high-performance distributed trust.
title Fast Networks for High-Performance Distributed Trust
topic Cryptography and Security
Networking and Internet Architecture
Operating Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00363