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SeMiNAS: A secure middleware for wide-Area network-Attached storage

  • Ming Chen
  • , Erez Zadok
  • , Arun Olappamanna Vasudevan
  • , Kelong Wang

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Abstract

Utility computing is being gradually realized as exemplified by cloud computing. Outsourcing computing and storage to global-scale cloud providers benefits from high accessibility, flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. However, users are uneasy outsourcing the storage of sensitive data due to security concerns. We address this problem by presenting SeMiNAS-an efficient middleware system that allows files to be securely outsourced to providers and shared among geo-distributed offices. SeMiNAS achieves end-To-end data integrity and confidentiality with a highly efficient authenticated-encryption scheme. SeMiNAS leverages advanced NFSv4 features, including compound procedures and data-integrity extensions, to minimize extra network round trips caused by security meta-data. SeMi-NAS also caches remote files locally to reduce accesses to providers overWANs. We designed, implemented, and evaluated SeMiNAS, which demonstrates a small performance penalty of less than 26% and an occasional performance boost of up to 19% for Filebench workloads.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSYSTOR 2016 - Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)9781450343817
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 6 2016
Event9th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference, SYSTOR 2016 - Haifa, Israel
Duration: Jun 6 2016Jun 8 2016

Publication series

NameSYSTOR 2016 - Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference

Conference

Conference9th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference, SYSTOR 2016
Country/TerritoryIsrael
CityHaifa
Period06/6/1606/8/16

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