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Hey HN, cofounder of ZeroDB here. Michael (/u/michwill) and I are excited to be a part of YC and happy to answer any questions about the company!
by mwilkison 10y ago
Hey HN, cofounder of ZeroDB here. Michael (/u/michwill) and I are excited to be a part of YC and happy to answer any questions about the company!
- jihoon796 10y agoLove the idea behind ZeroDB - kudos to you guys, and cheers from a fellow Tar Heel! What's your expansion strategy for Oracle/DB2/MySQL?
- michwill 10y agoWe have ideas how to make relational databases secure while running everything server-side, thanks to recent research publications [notably CipherBase from Microsoft Research http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2013/Papers/CIDR13_Paper33.pdf http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2013/Papers/CIDR13_Paper33.pdf] and advances in CPU hardware. Early days, but we'll probably test it first in the open source ZeroDB database [https://opensource.zerodb.com https://opensource.zerodb.com] and then apply the same method to existing relational databases.
- mkagenius 10y agoLol k - michael scott
- maerF0x0 10y agoIf the consuming application (and thus, keys) exist in the cloud as well, does ZeroDB offer any additional benefit over other encrypted at rest dbs? random ex: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/security-encryption-at-rest/ https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/security-encryption-at-...
- michwill 10y agoI think, you may have the application with a different cloud provider or even in a different geographic location, so that you can keep keys away from the data. In this case you sort of distribute trust.