Access control enforcement on query-aware encrypted cloud databases

The diffusion of cloud database services requires a lot of efforts to improve confidentiality of data stored in external infrastructures. We propose a novel scheme that integrates data encryption with users access control mechanisms. It can be used to guarantee confidentiality of data with respect to a public cloud infrastructure, and to minimize the risks of internal data leakage even in the worst case of a legitimate user colluding with some cloud provider personnel. The correctness and feasibility of the proposal is demonstrated through formal models, while the integration in a cloud-based architecture is left to future work.