FSL Sponsor Abstract: SPIR
Data is often the most important part of any computing system, especially
at-rest data that resides on stable storage devices over longer periods of
time. Data must be protected, efficiently accessible, and convenient to
use. To make access to a data convenient and ubiquitous, today's file
servers work over TCP/IP networks. Networks, however, make a remote file
server vulnerable to outside attacks --- attacks on the server or the
network itself. To help allay security concerns, network-based services
sometimes employ certain security techniques. Alas, such techniques often
slow the performance of the server considerably. For those reasons, today's
file servers do not include strong enough security, risking the integrity
and confidentiality of a site's files. In this project we investigate
practical proxy techniques to secure network-based file servers.