Encrypted processes for oblivious data retrieval
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Cloud computing is a distributed technology that can extend the resources available for computers connected to the Internet. Computers can benefit from remote servers to gain extra storage capacities or to execute complex computations that require extended memories. However, the cloud fails to employ sufficient security measure to preserve the privacy of each client connecting to it. In this paper, we present novel techniques that enable servers to process encrypted data without the need to decrypt such data. Furthermore, clients are able to ask remote machines to perform their requests through encrypted processes. Using these techniques, a malicious party can neither access the manipulated data nor learn the nature of the operations executed over them. A prototype has been built to investigate the performance of our techniques. This prototype is capable of executing oblivious database queries over encrypted data and it has been used to prove the practicality of the proposed techniques.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it