HIPPOCRATIC DATABASE

A Seminar Report

Submitted by

ANKUR

In partial fulfillment for the award of the degree

Of
Bachelor of Engineering

IN

COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

At

Apeejay College of Engineering.

SOHNA

On

16th FEBRUARY 2010

 ABSTRACT

Nowadays, organizations and business has several motivating factors to protect an individual’s

privacy. Confidentiality refers to type of sharing information to third parties. This is always

referring to private information, especially for personal information that usually needs to keep as a

private. Because of the important of privacy concerns today, we need to design a database system

that suits with privacy. Aggrawal et.al. has introduced Hippocratic Database also we refer here as a

privacy-aware database. This paper will explain how HD can be a future trend for web-based

application to enhance their privacy level of trustworthiness among internet users.

The explosive progress in networking, storage, and processor technologies is resulting in an

unprecedented amount of digitization of information. It is estimated that the amount of information

in the world is doubling every 20 months, and the size and number of databases are increasing even

faster [37]. In concert with this dramatic and escalating increase in digital data, concerns about the

privacy of personal information have emerged globally.

We enunciate the key privacy principles for such Hippocratic database systems. We propose a

strawman design for Hippocratic databases, identify the technical challenges and problems in

designing such databases, and suggest some approaches that may lead to solutions.
 ACKNOWLEDGMENT

With great pleasure and pride, I take an opportunity to pay my gratitude and thanks to my respected
guide and teacher Mr. Lalit Goyal who has been a continuous source of inspiration, and without
whose help, the completion of this report would have been impossible.

ANKUR
CSE
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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER NO. TITLE PAGE NO.

ABSTRACT i
ACKNOWLEDGMENT ii

1. INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Hippocractic databases 2

2. PRIVACY AS BASE FOR CONFIDENTIALITY 4

3. PRIVACY PROBLEMS IN DATABASE 6

4. HIPPOCRATIC DATABASE PRINCIPLES 9

5. CONCLUSION 12

6. REFERENCES 13