Title
SecCollab - Improving Confidentiality for Existing Cloud-Based Collaborative Editors
Abstract
Collaborative technologies have gained popularity due to the widespread adoption of cloud computing and web applications. Services like Google Docs, Office 365 can make one's documents accessible from everywhere, allowing real-time cooperative editing by multiple authors. From a security standpoint, they may offer transport protection by means of TLS, but the users's confidential data can still be read by the cloud service provider. In this paper, we present a system, called SecCollab, that protects users' privacy while using collaborative editors. Our solution does not require any changes to the existing applications and all collaborative editing features are preserved. We evaluate and show a moderate storage overhead (a linear 250%) and negligible encryption time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/CSCS.2017.51
2017 21st International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
collaboration,privacy,documents
World Wide Web,Cryptography,Collaborative editing,Computer science,Computer security,Server,Microsoft Office,Service provider,Encryption,Web application,Cloud computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-1840-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Florin-Alexandru Stancu100.34
Mihai Chiroiu263.10
Razvan Rughinis32513.70