Confidentiality-Preserving Publish/Subscribe : A Survey

Onica, Emanuel;Felber, Pascal;Mercier, Hugues;Riviere, Etienne
(2016) ACM Computing Surveys : the survey and tutorial journal of the ACM — Vol. 49, n° 2, p. 1-43 (2016)

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  • Onica, EmanuelAlexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Romania
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  • Felber, PascalUniversité de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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  • Mercier, HuguesUniversité de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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Abstract
Publish/subscribe (pub/sub) is an attractive communication paradigm for large-scale distributed applications running across multiple administrative domains. Pub/sub allows event-based information dissemination based on constraints on the nature of the data rather than on pre-established communication channels. It is a natural fit for deployment in untrusted environments such as public clouds linking applications across multiple sites. However, pub/sub in untrusted environments leads to major confidentiality concerns stemming from the content-centric nature of the communications. This survey classifies and analyzes different approaches to confidentiality preservation for pub/sub, from applications of trust and access control models to novel encryption techniques. It provides an overview of the current challenges posed by confidentiality concerns and points to future research directions in this promising field.
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Onica, E., Felber, P., Mercier, H., & Riviere, E. (2016). Confidentiality-Preserving Publish/Subscribe : A Survey. ACM Computing Surveys : the survey and tutorial journal of the ACM, 49(2), 1-43. https://doi.org/10.1145/2940296 (Original work published 2016)