Utsourced Computation News Today

The replication-Based Outsourced Computation (RBOC) mechanism allows a client to outsource the same computing job to multiple contractors and the honest contractors will get paid in the incentivized system based on the fact that a majority of contractors will honestly perform the computation. As self-executing contracts, smart contracts are utilized in the decentralized blockchain networks to execute coded programs automatically transparently, and publicly. It is natural to apply smart contracts...

It is inevitable and evident that outsourcing complicated intensive tasks to public cloud vendors would be the primary option for resource-constrained clients in order to save cost. Unfortunately, the public cloud vendors are usually untrusted. They may inadvertently leak the data or misuse the user's data, compromise user's privacy or intentionally corrupt computational results to make the system unreliable. It is therefore important how to stop this happening whilst embracing the com...