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Title:

Adding Cryptographically Enforced Permissions to Fully Decentralized File Systems

Document type:
Technical Report
Author(s):
Bernhard Amann; Thomas Fuhrmann
Abstract:
Distributed file systems nowadays work well in many ways. They provide efficient solutions, for example, to distribute data among a global team. But most systems do not address the complex subject of secure user and group management. The systems that do, usually offer only a very limited subset of access permissions that is incompatible to the permissions usually used in Unix-like systems.\\ In this report, we propose a new system for user and group management, which cryptographically enforces a...     »
Keywords:
Distributed Storage Systems; Distributed File Systems; Decentralized File Systems; Access Permissions; Access Controls; POSIX
Year:
2011
Year / month:
2011-04-07 00:00:00
Pages:
68
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