4th Workshop on Data Integrity and Secure Cloud Computing (DISCC)

Papers from Meta (Facebook) and Google (and see a recent multi-organization report), have created a major concern about data integrity in large-scale computing in cloud data centers. The term "mercurial cores" has been coined2 to refer to errant processor cores that have been clearly diagnosed as being the source of generating silent data errors – and recent panels (as referred to above) have brought together experts from cloud service providers and processor chip designers with the objective of raising awareness of this acute problem, and also encouraging leading edge research to devise affordable chip and system-level mitigation solutions. In addition to such data integrity concerns, the rise of data security and privacy breaches in cloud computing environments has accelerated research and development of practical solutions that enable computing with encrypted data (e.g., advanced cryptographic methods like Fully Homomorphic Computing or FHE); e.g. recent papers.