Deniable cloud storage: Sharing files via public-key deniability

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 31-42

  Gasti, Paolo ^a   Ateniese, Giuseppe ^b   Blanton, Marina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

cloud computing; cryptography; deniable encryption; deniable file system; steganographic file system

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; CLOUD STORAGES; COMPUTING RESOURCE; DENIABLE ENCRYPTION; FILE SYSTEMS; INTEGRAL PART; MINIMAL COST; PUBLIC KEYS; PUBLIC-KEY ENCRYPTION SCHEME; SECURITY MECHANISM; SERVICE PROVIDER; STANDARD TOOLS; USER COLLABORATIONS;

DATA PRIVACY; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650197977     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1866919.1866925     Document Type: Conference Paper

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