Building a secure and auditable Personal Cloud

Details

Supervisors

Riviere, Etienne

Faculty

Ecole polytechnique de Louvain

Degree label

Master [120] : ingénieur civil en informatique

Abstract

Nowadays, personal clouds are becoming more and more popular mainly thanks to the benefits it brings (availability of resources, ease of use, ease of shareability). However, a few decades ago, we never asked a very important question: what are the disadvantages of personal clouds? A few years ago, we started to realise those downsides which were most of the times related to our personal information security. Besides from that, we realised that personal cloud laked the traceability of our information, which means knowing who accessed which data at what time. The above two concepts became more and more important in modern society, partially thanks to the GDPR. There is a will of the end-users to be able to control their own data. They don’t want anyone else to use it for other purposes than legal ones. End-user wants their personal information to be securely stored and that none can breach their privacy. To cope with all these issues, we propose an innovative personal cloud client called LAUXUS. In this paper, we developed and proved that our client software conceals with the above-mentioned constraints. In a nutshell, we designed and developed a software that allows end-user to harness the power of personal clouds while discarding all the security issues associated with clouds.