Researcher Develops New Cloud Security Method for Mobile Users

May 4, 2015 Off By David
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Grazed from UCMerced.edu. Author: Editorial Staff.

A UC Merced researcher has come up with a new, super-efficient encryption system for smart phones that lets users secure data being sent to and retrieved from the cloud. Encrypting data on your phone or tablet — including pictures, documents and videos — protects against the kinds of leaks and hacks that seem to be in the news almost every week. But those devices have energy and storage limits, and encryption systems can be costly.

In the Cloud LabOpens a new window at UC Merced, graduate student Mehdi Bahrami, who works with Chancellor’s Professor Mukesh Singhal in the School of Engineering, devised a new lightweight data privacy method for mobile clients to store data in one or multiple clouds without using a lot of a mobile device’s resources…

“Data privacy can be violated by the cloud vendor, the vendor’s authorized users, other cloud users, unauthorized users or external, malicious entities,” Bahrami said. “Encryption is one way to protect and maintain the data privacy of cloud-stored data, but encryption methods have been expensive for mobile devices.”…

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