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Secure Cloud Storage with Client-Side Encryption Using a Trusted Execution Environment
With the evolution of computer systems, the amount of sensitive data to be
stored as well as the number of threats on these data grow up, making the data
confidentiality increasingly important to computer users. Currently, with
devices always connected to the Internet, the use of cloud data storage
services has become practical and common, allowing quick access to such data
wherever the user is. Such practicality brings with it a concern, precisely the
confidentiality of the data which is delivered to third parties for storage. In
the home environment, disk encryption tools have gained special attention from
users, being used on personal computers and also having native options in some
smartphone operating systems. The present work uses the data sealing, feature
provided by the Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) technology, for
file encryption. A virtual file system is created in which applications can
store their data, keeping the security guarantees provided by the Intel SGX
technology, before send the data to a storage provider. This way, even if the
storage provider is compromised, the data are safe. To validate the proposal,
the Cryptomator software, which is a free client-side encryption tool for cloud
files, was integrated with an Intel SGX application (enclave) for data sealing.
The results demonstrate that the solution is feasible, in terms of performance
and security, and can be expanded and refined for practical use and integration
with cloud synchronization services
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