Proxy Re-encryption(PRE) is greatly concerned by researchers recently. It potentially has many useful applications in network communications and file sharing. Secure distributed cryptographic file system is one of its...Proxy Re-encryption(PRE) is greatly concerned by researchers recently. It potentially has many useful applications in network communications and file sharing. Secure distributed cryptographic file system is one of its applications. But the practical applications of PRE are few. And even fewer of them are tested by systematically designed experiments. Appling a couple of representative algorithms proposed by BBS,Ateniese,Shao,et al.,a distributed file system is designed. In the system,some substitute mechanisms such as data dispersal,dynamic file sharing,are well-applied. A lot of features such as flexible authorization and data redundancy are embraced in the system. The comparison evaluation justified that the system is more practical and efficient.展开更多
Real-time encryption and decryption of digital images stored on end-user devices is a challenging task due to the inherent features of the images. Traditional software encryption applications generally suffered from t...Real-time encryption and decryption of digital images stored on end-user devices is a challenging task due to the inherent features of the images. Traditional software encryption applications generally suffered from the expense of user con- venience, performance efficiency, and the level of security provided. To overcome these limitations, the concept of transparent encryption has been proposed. This type of encryption mechanism can be implemented most efficiently with kernel file systems. However, this approach has some disadvantages since developing a new file system and attaching it in the kernel level requires a deep understanding of the kernel internal data structure. A filesystem in userspace （FUSE） can be used to bridge the gap. Never- theless, ctwrent implementations of cryptographic FUSE-based file systems suffered from several weaknesses that make them less than ideal for deployment. This paper describes the design and implementation of ImgFS, a fully transparent cryptographic file system that resides on user space. ImgFS can provide a sophisticated way to access, manage, and monitor all encryption and key management operations for image files stored on the local disk without any interaction from the user. The development of ImgFS has managed to solve weaknesses that have been identified on cryptographic FUSE-based implementations. Experiments were carried out to measure the performance of ImgFS over image files＇ read and write against the cryptographic service, and the results indicated that while ImgFS has managed to provide higher level of security and transparency, its performance was competitive with other established cryptographic FUSE-based schemes of high performance.展开更多
基金supported by National Science Foundation of China (Grant No.60842006)
文摘Proxy Re-encryption(PRE) is greatly concerned by researchers recently. It potentially has many useful applications in network communications and file sharing. Secure distributed cryptographic file system is one of its applications. But the practical applications of PRE are few. And even fewer of them are tested by systematically designed experiments. Appling a couple of representative algorithms proposed by BBS,Ateniese,Shao,et al.,a distributed file system is designed. In the system,some substitute mechanisms such as data dispersal,dynamic file sharing,are well-applied. A lot of features such as flexible authorization and data redundancy are embraced in the system. The comparison evaluation justified that the system is more practical and efficient.
基金Project partly supported by the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia under Grant LRGS/TD/2011/UKM/ICT/02
文摘Real-time encryption and decryption of digital images stored on end-user devices is a challenging task due to the inherent features of the images. Traditional software encryption applications generally suffered from the expense of user con- venience, performance efficiency, and the level of security provided. To overcome these limitations, the concept of transparent encryption has been proposed. This type of encryption mechanism can be implemented most efficiently with kernel file systems. However, this approach has some disadvantages since developing a new file system and attaching it in the kernel level requires a deep understanding of the kernel internal data structure. A filesystem in userspace （FUSE） can be used to bridge the gap. Never- theless, ctwrent implementations of cryptographic FUSE-based file systems suffered from several weaknesses that make them less than ideal for deployment. This paper describes the design and implementation of ImgFS, a fully transparent cryptographic file system that resides on user space. ImgFS can provide a sophisticated way to access, manage, and monitor all encryption and key management operations for image files stored on the local disk without any interaction from the user. The development of ImgFS has managed to solve weaknesses that have been identified on cryptographic FUSE-based implementations. Experiments were carried out to measure the performance of ImgFS over image files＇ read and write against the cryptographic service, and the results indicated that while ImgFS has managed to provide higher level of security and transparency, its performance was competitive with other established cryptographic FUSE-based schemes of high performance.
