Abstract
The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is crumbling, partially due to the lack of a strong understanding of how encryption actually works, but also due to weaknesses in its implementation. This paper outlines an Internet storage technique using secret sharing methods which could be used to overcome the problems inherent with PKI, while supporting new types of architectures incorporating such things as automated failover and break-glass data recovery. The paper outlines a novel architecture: SECRET, which supports a robust cloud-based infrastructure with in-built privacy and failover. In order to understand the performance overhead of SECRET, the paper outlines a range of experiments that investigate the overhead of this and other secret share methods.
Highlights
Cloud Computing has seen one of the most radical shifts within Information Technology, and the shift is most apparent both in the move from migrating private networks to virtualized networks, as well as the move from private cloud systems onto public ones
The aim of the experiments were to demonstrate the implication data size variations have on the performance of each secret sharing scheme (SSS) algorithm in terms of share creation and share recreation
The modern cloud-based systems that are commonly produced are often scaled from private platforms into public cloud infrastructures, with the addition of some degree of encryption
Summary
Cloud Computing has seen one of the most radical shifts within Information Technology, and the shift is most apparent both in the move from migrating private networks to virtualized networks, as well as the move from private cloud systems onto public ones. These moves have not really changed the methods of providing security and robustness, and instead often rely on the addition of Future Internet 2015, 7 encryption keys or the implementation of multi-factor authentication techniques. Many public cloud-based systems are at risk of major data loss through private key loss (and data loss), especially through the growth of APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats), certificate cracking, and insider threats
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