Cryptography and randomization to dispose of data and boost system security

Shaikhah B Alkhadhr,Mohammad A Alkandari,Tao Song

doi:10.1080/23311916.2017.1300049

Shaikhah B Alkhadhr, Mohammad A Alkandari + Show 1 more

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https://doi.org/10.1080/23311916.2017.1300049

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Journal: Cogent Engineering	Publication Date: Jan 1, 2017
Citations: 2	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Kuwait University, University of Petroleum

Abstract

AbstractMassive public pressure is arising to achieve data privacy and protection. One way to maintain data privacy is to perform efficient data disposal processes. This minimizes the chances of data leakage over an extended period and through irresponsible actions. That is why adequate data disposal is essential in so many governmental and critical institutions. Simply “deleting” data does not erase it. In fact, it only removes the name that refers to that piece of data, but the data itself remains. In this paper, we utilize an encryption algorithm and then perform a randomization process to dispose of data values in an irreversible approach making it difficult to retrieve the original value of data from the defaced result.

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Introduction and related workProduced data on different computing systems are not important or required
It is a matter of user comfort and security when it comes for using websites, applications, or any typical device
Possible integration in operating systems With the help of a detection algorithm, this approach can be integrated within an operating system to identify the types of files and perform the disposal algorithm

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Introduction and related workProduced data on different computing systems are not important or required. Data are meant to be used for a specified period and for a cause, but when they are no longer of significant value, typically, they should be disposed of, which is not always the case of practice. It is a matter of user comfort and security when it comes for using websites, applications, or any typical device. Government organizations, corporates, social networks, e-commerce websites produce data waste regularly (Jedrzejczyk et al, 2009). Confidential data which is kept on different types of media need to be disposed of after their validity period has expired

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