| Microsoft Corporation. Encrypting File System for Windows 2000. |
....obtaining file keys. Figure 1: Decrypting File Encrypting Keys not impose undue usability burdens or noticeably reduce file system performance. The main contribution of this paper is not the construction of a cryptographic file system. Blaze s CFS [1] Zadok s Cryptfs [32] and Microsoft s EFS [19] all address the architecture, administration, and cryptographic methods for a file system. However, none of these combine user authentication and encryption properly. Some systems, such as EFS, require the user to reauthenticate after certain events, such as suspension, hibernation, or long idle ....
....system is empowered to decrypt files on the user s behalf. Cryptfs significantly outperforms CFS, and our benchmarks show Cryptfs in an even better light. This is primarily due to the replacement of Blowfish [29] with Rijndael [8] Microsoft Windows 2000 provides the Encrypting File System (EFS) [19]. While EFS solves many administrative issues, it is essentially no di#erent from CFS or Cryptfs. A single password serves as the key encrypting key for on disk, per file keys. EFS still depends on screen saver or suspension locks to revoke this key encrypting key, rather than departure of the ....
Microsoft Corporation. Encrypting File System for Windows 2000.
....part of the user. The one exception is iris recognition [10] but this scheme requires three separate cameras, a bulky and expensive proposition for mobile devices. There are a number of file systems that provide transparent encryption: Blaze s CFS [1] Zadok s Cryptfs [16] and Microsoft s EFS [8]. None of these tie user authentication to the encryption process properly. Some systems, such as EFS, require the user to reauthenticate after certain events to bound the window of vulnerability. This increases security, but decreases usability. 6 Conclusion Computing systems currently depend ....
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