Paper Info
Title
File system encryption with integrated user management
Abstract
Existing cryptographic file systems for Unix do not take into account that sensitive data must often be shared with other users, but still kept secret. By design, the only one who has access to the secret data is the person who encrypted it and therefore knows the encryption key or password. This paper presents a kernel driver for a new encrypted file system, called Fairly Secure File System (FSFS), which provides mechanisms for user management and access control for encrypted files. The driver has been specifically designed with multi user systems in mind. FSFS also tries to prevent unintentional transfer of sensitive data to unencrypted file systems, where it would be stored in plaintext.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1145/506084.506092
Operating Systems Review
Keywords
Field
DocType
kernel driver,multi user system,sensitive data,access control,system encryption,user management,new encrypted file system,encrypted file,cryptographic file system,unencrypted file system,integrated user management,secret data
SSH File Transfer Protocol,Stub file,Self-certifying File System,Computer science,Computer security,Unix file types,Versioning file system,On-the-fly encryption,Filesystem-level encryption,Computer file
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
35
4
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefan Ludwig1102.94
Winfried Kalfa2468.47