Paper Info
Title
UFLE: a user-friendly location-free encryption system for mobile users
Abstract
AbstractLeakage of sensitive data stored on lost or stolen portable devices has been an open problem in the data security community. Clumsiness of existing solutions hinders them from being deployed. We propose a user-friendly location-free encryption system for mobile users UFLE to improve the solution Mobile User Location-specific Encryption MULE from Studer and Perrig on both the security and usability. In particular, we solve the problem of i enhancing the convenience and security of MULE, ii accessing sensitive data in untrusted locations, and iii protecting data on stolen or lost USB flash drive, which were not addressed in their solution. Moreover, UFLE does not require any special hardware except a mobile phone and a Bluetooth adapter, which are readily available nowadays. This significantly improves the practicability of the proposed system in contexts such as business companies, government offices, hospitals, and banks. Evaluation of our system shows that it is both faster and more stable than MULE. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1002/sec.615
Periodicals
Keywords
Field
DocType
file system,identity-based encryption,location free
Data security,Computer security,Computer science,Computer network,Adapter (computing),Encryption,Mobile phone,On-the-fly encryption,USB flash drive,Bluetooth,56-bit encryption
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
10
1939-0114
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yi Jun He162.49
Patrick P. F. Chan200.34
Lucas C. K. Hui3833110.97
Siu-ming Yiu4102692.90