Oklahoma State University's Technology Business Assessment Group will fund research on data shuffling as a way to protect information. The project, led by Rathindra Sarathy of OSU's Department of Management Science and Information Systems, is among four projects selected to receive $100K-plus in funding. The projects were judged based on their promise to have commercial success and the funding comes from royalties on intellectual property previously licensed by the school.
According to the school, Sarathy's project, “Developing Data Protection Software Based on Data Shuffling,” involves a method "that rearranges confidential information from data sets in a complex, coordinated fashion so that it maintains confidentiality." Sarathy is collaborating with a researcher at the University of Kentucky on the effort, which is being designed in part to address privacy concerns raised by ever more powerful Internet and data mining tools.
Once research is completed, Sarathy plans to spin off a company to be based in Stillwater, Okla.
Here's a powerpoint presentation and a white paper providing background and further explanations of data shuffling.
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