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Secure Data Deletion

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  • First book to offer a systematized comparison of secure deletion solutions
  • Shows how to build a system and adversarial model
  • Useful for researchers, graduate students, and practitioners
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Information Security and Cryptography (ISC)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Introduction and Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction

      • Joel Reardon
      Pages 3-9
    3. Related Work on Secure Deletion

      • Joel Reardon
      Pages 11-31
    4. System Model and Security Goal

      • Joel Reardon
      Pages 33-43
  3. Secure Deletion for Mobile Storage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
    2. Data Node Encrypted File System

      • Joel Reardon
      Pages 73-85
    3. UBIFSec: Adding DNEFS to UBIFS

      • Joel Reardon
      Pages 87-102
  4. Secure Deletion for Remote Storage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
    2. Cloud Storage: Background and Related Work

      • Joel Reardon
      Pages 105-113
    3. Secure Data Deletion from Persistent Media

      • Joel Reardon
      Pages 115-128
    4. B-Tree-Based Secure Deletion

      • Joel Reardon
      Pages 129-142
  5. Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
    2. Conclusion and Future Work

      • Joel Reardon
      Pages 177-186
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 187-203

About this book

This book is the first to develop a systematized approach for the comparison and evaluation of secure deletion solutions. The book focuses on novel secure deletion solutions targeting specific real-world environments where secure deletion is problematic: mobile storage and remote storage. The author surveys related work, organizes existing solutions in terms of their interfaces, presents a taxonomy of adversaries differing in their capabilities, and then builds a system and adversarial model based on the survey of related work.

The book is useful for both academics, researchers and graduate students, and for practitioners who may integrate its results into deployed systems.

Reviews

“In this book, the author discusses all of this, as well as some of the ways to ensure secure deletion … . The material is generally well presented and interesting … . This book could well be used as supplemental material for an undergraduate course in computer security or in operating systems, as the author mentions implementations in Linux for several ideas presented.” (Computing Reviews, May, 2017)

“The author has written the definitive reference on the topic ... a formalized and systematized approach to the secure deletion of data. This is not the book for those looking for a list of products for file or drive sanitization. This is actually the book that the developers of such software and hardware solutions should be using to design their systems, and to ensure their products can indeed perform as described. ... The book is a fascinating read for anyone who wants to understand the significant challenges in deleted data from various forms of media.” (Ben Rothke, CISSP CISM)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Joel Reardon

About the author

Joel Reardon received his Ph.D. from the System Security Group of the Institute of Information Security of ETH Zürich. He is currently a postdoc in the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and University of California, Berkeley.

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Softcover Book USD 139.99
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Hardcover Book USD 139.99
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