Secure overlay cloud storage with access control and file assured deletion

Tang, Yang.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011.Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-65).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Abstract --- p.iAcknowledgement --- p.ivChapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 2 --- Policy-based File Assured Deletion --- p.7Chapter 2.1 --- Background --- p.7Chapter 2.2 --- Policy-based Deletion --- p.9Chapter 3 --- Basic Design of FADE --- p.13Chapter 3.1 --- Entities --- p.13Chapter 3.2 --- Deployment --- p.15Chapter 3.3 --- "Security Goals, Threat Models, and Assumptions" --- p.16Chapter 3.4 --- The Basics - File Upload/Download --- p.18Chapter 3.5 --- Policy Revocation for File Assured Deletion --- p.23Chapter 3.6 --- Multiple Policies --- p.23Chapter 3.7 --- Policy Renewal --- p.25Chapter 4 --- Extensions of FADE --- p.27Chapter 4.1 --- Access Control with ABE --- p.27Chapter 4.2 --- Multiple Key Managers --- p.31Chapter 5 --- Implementation --- p.35Chapter 5.1 --- Representation of Metadata --- p.36Chapter 5.2 --- Client --- p.37Chapter 5.3 --- Key Managers --- p.38Chapter 6 --- Evaluation --- p.40Chapter 6.1 --- Experimental Results on Time Performance of FADE --- p.41Chapter 6.1.1 --- Evaluation of Basic Design --- p.42Chapter 6.1.2 --- Evaluation of Extensions --- p.46Chapter 6.2 --- Space Utilization of FADE --- p.49Chapter 6.3 --- Cost Model --- p.51Chapter 6.4 --- Lessons Learned --- p.53Chapter 7 --- Related Work --- p.54Chapter 8 --- Conclusions --- p.58Bibliography --- p.6