SiRiUS: Securing Remote Untrusted Storage.

Eu-Jin Goh, Hovav Shacham, Nagendra Modadugu, Dan Boneh

2003 · 451 citations · 17 references

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TL;DR

SiRiUS is a secure file system designed to layer over insecure network and P2P file systems such as NFS, CIFS, OceanStore, and Yahoo! SiRiUS implements cryptographic read‑write access control, simple key management and revocation, hash‑tree based freshness guarantees, a novel block‑server‑free random access method, and scalable group sharing via NNL revocation. Our implementation of SiRiUS performs well relative to the underlying file system despite using cryptographic operations. Briefcase.

Abstract

This paper presents SiRiUS, a secure file system designed to be layered over insecure network and P2P file systems such as NFS, CIFS, OceanStore, and Yahoo! Briefcase. SiRiUS assumes the network storage is untrusted and provides its own read-write cryptographic access control for file level sharing. Key management and revocation is simple with minimal out-of-band communication. File system freshness guarantees are supported by SiRiUS using hash tree constructions. SiRiUS contains a novel method of performing file random access in a cryptographic file system without the use of a block server. Extensions to SiRiUS include large scale group sharing using the NNL key revocation construction. Our implementation of SiRiUS performs well relative to the underlying file system despite using cryptographic operations.

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