Poster : Forcing the Cloud to Forget by Attesting Data Deletion

Cloud computing requires that data is given to a third party with an unknown IT infrastructure for a specific purpose. Consequently, this raises numerous questions regarding the control over the data: how can be ensured that the data is used for a specific purpose and only for that purpose. There are several solutions for a predefined purpose such as storing data [7], [1] or for more general purposes using multi-party computations [5]. However, it is still an open problem to ensure deletion of data. In this work, we propose a mechanism that enables remote attestation for deletion of data.