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Authors:
Markus Hofmarcher
Michael Strauß
Wolfgang Narzt
Keywords: end-to-end encryption; cloud services; Android; contact data; cross-platform
Abstract:
Storing and synchronizing personalized or business-related data, especially contact data, is increasingly done by cloud services. Thereby, control over personal data is subject to the technical conditions and measures of the cloud service providers. However, abstaining from the utilization of cloud services is not an alternative as their amenities are indispensable both for private and business users. End-to-end encryption, as it is already maturely applied for various communication services, would enable users to still keep their contacts on remote storage nodes, but save them in encrypted form. Although, the principal concepts for this kind of security measure are well-studied, there is still no service for protecting cloud-based contact data by end-to-end encryption using mobile platforms. This paper presents the ideas and the architecture for end-to-end encryption of contact data using the example of Android.
Pages: 168 to 173
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014
Publication date: June 22, 2014
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4219
ISBN: 978-1-61208-347-6
Location: Seville, Spain
Dates: from June 22, 2014 to June 26, 2014