SmartSSD-Accelerated Cryptographic Shuffling for Enhancing Database Security

Given that databases often house sensitive and valuable data, ensuring data confidentiality and integrity of the databases is imperative. Encryption emerges as one of the predominant techniques employed in bolstering database security. Alongside encryption, shuffling also offers a viable approach to fortify the security of database. However, both encryption and shuffling requires huge amounts of system I/O requests which bring performance burden to the database server. In this paper, we propose a design to further enhance the security of shuffling algorithm and improve its efficiency by employing SmartSSD computational storage device from Samsung and AMD. We conduct experiments to evaluate the overhead of the improved effectiveness.