RockfS: Cloud-backed file system resilience to client-side attacks

David R. Matos, Miguel L. Pardal, Georg Carle, Miguel Correia

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Abstract

Cloud-backed file systems provide on-demand, high-availability, scalable storage. Their security may be improved with techniques such as erasure codes and secret sharing to fragment files and encryption keys in several clouds. Attacking the server-side of such systems involves penetrating one or more clouds, which can be extremely difficult. Despite all these benefits, a weak side remains: the client-side. The client devices store user credentials that, if stolen or compromised, may lead to confidentiality, integrity, and availability violations. In this paper we propose RockFS, a cloud-backed file system framework that aims to make the client-side of such systems resilient to attacks. RockFS protects data in the client device and allows undoing unintended file modifications.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 19th International Middleware Conference, Middleware 2018
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages107-119
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9781450357029
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 Nov 2018
Event19th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Middleware 2018 - Rennes, Brittany, France
Duration: 10 Dec 201814 Dec 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 19th International Middleware Conference, Middleware 2018

Conference

Conference19th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Middleware 2018
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityRennes, Brittany
Period10/12/1814/12/18

Keywords

  • Cloud computing
  • File systems
  • Intrusion recovery
  • Privacy

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