Title
Compute globally, act locally: protecting federated systems from systemic threats
Abstract
Building dependable federated systems is often complicated by privacy concerns: if the domains are not willing to share information with each other, a global or 'systemic' threat may not be detected until it is too late. In this paper, we study this problem using a somewhat unusual example: the financial crisis of 2008. Based on results from the economics literature, we argue that a) the impending crisis could have been predicted by performing a specific distributed computation on the financial information of each bank, but that b) existing tools, such as secure multiparty computation, do not offer enough privacy to make participation safe from the banks' perspective. We then sketch the design of a system that can perform this (and possibly other) computation at scale with strong privacy guarantees. Results from an early prototype suggest that the computation and communication costs are reasonable.
Year
Venue
Field
2014
HotDep
Secure multi-party computation,Financial information,Computer science,Financial crisis,Computer security,Federated Architecture,Sketch,Computation
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.39
References 
Authors
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arjun Narayan11997.10
Antonis Papadimitriou2253.52
Andreas Haeberlen3150597.07