"Secure and Reliable Long-Term Storage to Outlast Humans"

People should be able to securely store their digital information without fear of quantum or faster computers threatening safety. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), computer science professors will use their innovative collaborative research project titled "Secure, Reliable, and Efficient Long-Term Storage" to address this issue. Dr. Erez Zadok and Dr. Omkant Pandey of Stony Brook University, along with Dr. Ethan L. Miller of the University of California-Santa Clara, have been awarded $1.2 million to study techniques and develop a secure and efficient long-term storage system for digital information that can outlive a human. Using information theoretic security and combinatorial security, Zadok and his collaborators have created a model of long-term security that can withstand the power of faster computers and even quantum computers. In addition, the security model defends against malicious "insiders" who abuse their access to steal data over a long period of time. The prototype system is empirically evaluated to gain insight into the challenges of implementing these techniques in the real world, while a simulator is used to project the long-term effectiveness of these techniques. This research facilitates collaborations between systems, theory, and security researchers in order to develop techniques for securing data for many years while ensuring its integrity. This article continues to discuss the team's work on secure and reliable long-term storage. 

Stony Brook University reports "Secure and Reliable Long-Term Storage to Outlast Humans"