[cap-talk] An interesting paper

[David Wagner]

This paper might be of interest to folks here:

Francis Hsu and Hao Chen, Secure File System Services for Web 2.0
Applications.  To appear in the ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop
(CCSW 2009).  http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~hchen/paper/ccsw09.pdf 


Abstract: We present a design for a file system that provides a
secure file storage service for Web 2.0 applications. Currently,
each Web application stores its own user data.  This not only burdens
the applications with storing, managing, and securing user data but
also deprives users from controlling their own data.  With recent
proposals of secure client-side cross-domain communication mechanisms,
we can provide an independent file system service to Web applications.
This service returns the control over user data back to the users,
where users can share or restrict access to their files as they wish,
and relieves web application servers from the contractual or regulatory
obligation of safeguarding user data.