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Measuring the energy consumption and carbon footprint of encrypted databases using CodeCarbon
Pop, M.G. (2025) Measuring the energy consumption and carbon footprint of encrypted databases using CodeCarbon.
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| Abstract: | Privacy and climate change are two crucial subjects that have concerned people recently. Encryption is vital in preventing malicious actors from interfering and tampering with sensitive data. Nonetheless, encrypting and decrypting data impacts the energy consumption of the systems that run those algorithms. This research will measure the carbon footprint of database queries with and without encryption. After gathering the measurements, some statistical analysis is carried out to verify the significant difference between the two and their magnitude. The findings of this paper are pertinent for sustainable data privacy and the cybersecurity domain because they provide additional information in the comparison between searchable encryption and plain, unsecured search queries. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Subject: | 54 computer science |
| Programme: | Computer Science BSc (56964) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/105095 |
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