Secure Data Deletion from Persistent Media

Speaker: Joel Reardon , ETH Zurich

Date: Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM Note: all times are in the Eastern Time Zone

Refreshments: 4:00 PM

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Location: G882

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Host: CSAIL Security Seminar

Contact: Raluca Ada Popa, raluca@csail.mit.edu

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Reminder Subject: TALK: Secure Data Deletion from Persistent Media

Secure deletion is the task of deleting data irrecoverably from a physical medium. In this work, we present a general approach to the design and analysis of secure deletion for persistent storage that relies on encryption and key wrapping. We define a key disclosure graph that models the adversarial knowledge of the history of key generation and wrapping. We introduce a generic update function and prove that it achieves secure deletion of data against a coercive attacker; instances of the update
function implement the update behaviour of all arborescent data structures including B-Trees, extendible hash tables, linked lists, and others. We implement a B-Tree instance of our solution. Our implementation is at the block-device layer, allowing any block-based file system to be used on top of it. Using different workloads, we find that the storage and communication overhead required for storing and retrieving B-Tree nodes is small and that this therefore constitutes a viable solution for many applications requiring secure deletion from persistent media.

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Created by Raluca Ada Popa at Tuesday, October 08, 2013 at 4:53 PM.