An efficient secure deletion scheme for flash file systems

Journal of Information Science and Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-38

  Lee, Jaeheung ^a   Yi, Sangho ^a   Heo, Junyoung ^d   Park, Hyungbae ^b   Shin, Y ^c   Cho, Yookun ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^c South Dakota State Univ   (United States)

^d Hansung University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Encryption; File system; Flash memory; Key management; Secure deletion

Indexed keywords

ENCRYPTION; ENCRYPTION SCHEMES; ERASE OPERATION; FILE SYSTEMS; FLASH FILE SYSTEMS; KEY MANAGEMENT; SECURE DELETION;

CRYPTOGRAPHY; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FLASH MEMORY;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 77249114232     PISSN: 10162364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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