Writing on Wind and Water: Enforcing File Robustness in the Cloud
Event details
| Date | 15.06.2010 |
| Hour | 11:15 |
| Speaker | Dr Ari Juels, RSA Laboratories |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The Cloud abstracts away infrastructural complexity for the benefit of tenants. But to tenants' detriment, it can also abstract away vital security information. In this talk, I discuss several protocols for remote testing of cloud storage integrity and robustness. Executing these protocols without detailed infrastructural knowledge or trust in cloud providers, clients or auditors can: (1) Verify the integrity of full files without downloading them; (2) Distribute files across cloud providers and ensure strong robustness with periodic, inexpensive checks (in a cloud analog to RAID); and (3) Test whether files are resilient to drive crashes. Joint work with Kevin Bowers, Marten van Dijk, Alina Oprea, and Ron Rivest. Dr Juels' homepage
Practical information
- General public
- Free