We present TimeCrypt, an efficient and scalable system that augments time series data stores with encrypted data processing capabilities and features a new encryption-based access control scheme that is additively homomorphic. TimeCrypt is tailored for time series workloads, supports fast statistical queries over large volumes of encrypted time series data, and enables users to cryptographically restrict the scope of queries and data access based on pre-defined access policies. Our evaluation of TimeCrypt shows that its memory overhead and performance are competitive and close to operating on data in the clear (insecure). E.g., with data ingest at 2.4 million data points per second, we experience a slowdown of around 1.8% for both encrypted data ingest and statistical queries.
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