@inproceedings{34b9a6c986054a8e9bb1c5a3fa0ab59b,
title = "SCORAM: Oblivious RAM for secure computation",
abstract = "Oblivious RAMs (ORAMs) have traditionally been measured by their bandwidth overhead and client storage. We observe that when using ORAMs to build secure computation protocols for RAM programs, the size of the ORAM circuits is more relevant to the performance. We therefore embark on a study of the circuit-complexity of several recently proposed ORAMconstructions. Our careful implementation and experiments show that asymptotic analysis is not indicative of the true performance of ORAM in secure computation protocols with practical data sizes. We then present scoram, a heuristic compact ORAM design optimized for secure computation protocols. Our new design is almost 10x smaller in circuit size and also faster than all other designs we have tested for realistic settings (i.e., memory sizes between 4MB and 2GB, constrained by 2-80 failure probability). scoram makes it feasible to perform secure computations on gigabyte-sized data sets. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).",
keywords = "Oblivious RAM, Secure computation",
author = "Xiao Wang and Yan Huang and Chan, {T. H.Hubert} and Abhi Shelat and Elaine Shi",
year = "2014",
month = nov,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1145/2660267.2660365",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "191--202",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security",
note = "21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2014 ; Conference date: 03-11-2014 Through 07-11-2014",
}