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UsiFe: a user space file system with support for intra-file encryption
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Sharma, Rohan Kallurkar, Prathmesh Kumar, Saurabh Sarangi, Smruti R. |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | This paper proposes a new paradigm for the design of cryptographic filesystems. Traditionally, cryptographic file systems have mainly focused on encrypting entire files or directories. In this paper, we envisage encryption at a finer granularity, i.e. encrypting parts of files. Such an approach is useful for protecting parts of large files that typically feature in novel applications focused on handling a large amount of scientific data, GIS, and XML data. We extend prior work by implementing a user level file system on Linux, UsiFe, which supports fine grained encryption by extending the popular ext2 file system. We further explore two paradigms in which the user is agnostic to encryption in the underlying filesystem, and the user is aware that a file contains encrypted content. Popular file formats like XML, PDF, and PostScript can leverage both of these models to form the basis of interactive applications that use fine grained access control to selectively hide data. Lastly, we measure the performance of UsiFe, and observe that we can support file access for partially encrypted files with less than 15% overhead. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1117/12.920380 |
| Volume Number | 8349 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~srsarangi/files/papers/usife.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1117/12.920380 |
| Journal | International Conference on Machine Vision |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
