Title
TooLate: Cryptographic Data Access Control for Offline Devices through Efficient Key Rotation
Abstract
ABSTRACTThe design of an access control technique for devices not connected to the Internet can present some very difficult challenges. Among others, how to properly handle user revocation stands out. In this paper, we present TooLate, a cryptosystem that allows an authority to grant access to a user over a set of encrypted files stored on an offline device. The authority has no connection with the device but is able to centrally manage access control to the remote datastore, providing users with decryption keys whose validity is limited in time and only to specific resources. The system uses a lightweight cryptographic technique suitable for non-tamper-proof, low-power devices. An active security module periodically re-encrypts the entire datastore using keys dynamically generated from a hash chain. Key rotation ensures that, even by tampering with the device, attackers cannot gain access to the data without a valid key, as the re-encryption occurs and they arrive too late.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3462633.3483982
Computer and Communications Security
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lorenzo Bracciale16811.88
Pierpaolo Loreti29318.75
Emanuele Raso300.34
Giuseppe Bianchi4429.89