JustMyFriends: Full SQL, Full Transactional Amenities, and Access Privacy

Summary: JustMyFriends provides full SQL and full transactional semantics for shared data among a circle of trust; non-friends see only encrypted blobs. It enforces full access privacy, preventing the host from inferring access patterns, enabling secure, concurrent sharing, demonstrated via a government-style spy-network scenario. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4631
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2012
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,314 | 15.52%
DOI: 10.1145/2213836.2213918

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Authors

1. Arthur Meacham (New York University)
2. Dennis Shasha (New York University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{meacham_sigmod12,
        title = {{JustMyFriends: Full SQL, Full Transactional Amenities, and Access Privacy}},
        author = {Meacham, Arthur and Shasha, Dennis},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '12},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2213836.2213918},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2213836.2213918},
        year = {2012}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
114	Executing SQL over Encrypted Data in the Database-Service-Provider Model	2002	SIGMOD	0.00032363776
1,310	A Privacy-Preserving Index for Range Queries	2004	VLDB	0.00011209219

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