Encrypting Distributed Databases with Provable Security

by Archita Agarwal As people worldwide continue to generate massive amounts of data, distributed storage systems or distributed databases have become a necessity. Much of this data is sensitive, and it’s been the subject of breaches (Facebook in 2019, Marriott in 2018) that have affected hundreds of millions of users. Encryption is often proposed as a security solution, but when misapplied, it can lead to systems that fail to provide satisfactory privacy guarantees.

Clusion v0.2.0

by Seny Kamara and Tarik Moataz Over the last two years, we have been working on an open source encrypted search library called Clusion. We are using it in several ESL projects, including the Signal Search project we recently released. We are also excited that other groups are experimenting with it. In this post, we wanted to give an overview of Clusion and answer some of the most frequently asked questions we have received about it.