Private Cloud Storage Forensics: Seafile as a Case Study

Teing, Yee-Yang; Homayoun, Sajad; Dehghantanha, Ali; Choo, Kim‐Kwang Raymond; Parizi, Reza M.; Hammoudeh, Mohammad; Epiphaniou, Gregory

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-10543-3_5

Cited by 7 publications

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“…Seafile, like NextCloud, is an open-source cloud server that can be used to store data where it is not popular like NextCloud, but has the same services and features that other cloud storage providers can offer [6,20] . In this precise research study, it is demonstrated how efficient Seafile is compared to NextCloud.…”

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confidence: 99%

Secure Cloud Storage Solution with “Seafile” & “NextCloud”: A Resilient Efficiency Assessment

Gavin Dutcher,

Koku Azianyo,

Thivanka P.B. M. Dissanayake

et al. 2024

Adv. Technol.

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Storage and file synchronization have become increasingly important services in our everyday lives. With cloud storage providers giving users access to file space in the cloud, one might wonder how efficient these cloud storage providers are with their encryption methods. There are many different cloud storage providers and programs to set up a cloud storage solution. This paper focuses on two secure cloud storage solutions, Seafile, and NextCloud, and determines the efficiency of these cloud storage solutions’ encryption methods. By determining the efficiency of these secure cloud storage providers’ encryption methods, it can help others determine which of these providers will fit their needs. To determine efficiency, the CPU, memory, and network usage of these cloud storage solutions will be measured at idle and when files are being uploaded to them. To measure the CPU, memory, and network usage, ‘dstat’ will be used to capture their usages and record them to a CSV file. It is expected that both cloud solutions will have better performance when they have files being uploaded to them with no encryption. However, with the encryption methods of both cloud solutions being lightweight, that was not the case.

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Section: Cloud Storage Comparisonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Secure Cloud Storage Solution with “Seafile” & “NextCloud”: A Resilient Efficiency Assessment

Gavin Dutcher,

Koku Azianyo,

Thivanka P.B. M. Dissanayake

et al. 2024

Adv. Technol.

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“…SeaFile service is considered an open-source cloud storage service, defects have been discovered on the server and the client that can be restored legally, by specifying the client's synchronization, encryption, file and data management for authentication and forensic analysis, by creating eight virtual accounts for the role of clients and administrators and assigning an emoji and a unique name For each user account [6].The test consists of two VM workstations for servers, three virtual machines for clients, an iOS device and an Android device that have been restored to factory settings, and VMware was used to host the VMware Fusion Professional version 7.0.0 on a MacBook Pro with a Mac OSX Mavericks 10.9.5 system with Intel i7 2.6GHz processor specifications quickly. With a 16 GB main memory, virtual drives have been used because the use of physical devices to perform the procedures is tiring in terms of copying, scanning and reinstallation, as the virtual machine offers an acceptable error rate through the use of restore points in the event of unacceptable results, in addition to using Physical mobile devices instead of the emulator for the ineffectiveness of the emulator because it deletes some of the features of these devices and provides unsatisfactory results, using devices with few spaces to save time and effort in analyzing snapshots, in addition to breaking the protection of mobile devices to access the main system of portable devices (root).The test resulted in the fact that the private cloud is important to users and medium and small enterprises, but it is not without flaws in terms of forensicsSeaFile.…”

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Digital Forensic Tools Used in Analyzing Cybercrime

Dweikat¹,

Eleyan²,

Eleyan³

2021

JUSST

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With the development of technology, crime has become not limited to traditional crimes, but has evolved in its modern sense into electronic crimes that have their own tools for penetration, extortion, theft, money laundering and electronic exchange, and concealing the effects of these crimes increases the difficulty of investigation. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop electronic tools in forensic medicine to keep pace with this type of crime, search for criminals and collect evidence to be used against them before the court, and from here the topic of these tools has evolved, and we will also address in this scientific paper these tools and identify their strengths and weaknesses and suggest appropriate solutions and tools. That covers all aspects of the evidence to assist the investigators in selecting the appropriate tool.

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“…The exponential growth of the Internet interconnections has led to a significant growth of break-in attacks that can exploit vulnerabilities that exist within the applications, or in the operating system, on the mobile device [20][21][22]. Additionally, any attack on the cellular network can compromise the integrity of information; attacks such as International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catchers [23], which feign man-in-the-middle attacks, can target user sensitive information, e.g., locate cellular phones, intercept communication content like text messages and phone calls.…”

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D-FAP: Dual-Factor Authentication Protocol for Mobile Cloud Connected Devices

Abuarqoub

2019

JSAN

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Emerging Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) technologies offer a new world of promise by leveraging the quality of mobile services. With MCC, resource-constrained mobile devices could capitalize on the computation/storage resources of cloud servers via communication networks. While MCC adoption is growing significantly, several challenges need to be addressed to make MCC-based solutions scale and meet the ever-growing demand for more resource intensive applications. Security is a critical problem hindering the adoption of MCC. One of the most important aspects of MCC security is to establish authenticated communication sessions between mobile devices and cloud servers. The huge amount of data stored on mobile devices poses information security risks and privacy concerns for individuals, enterprises, and governments. The ability to establish authenticated communication sessions between mobile devices and cloud servers can resolve many security concerns. Limited computing and energy resources on mobile devices makes authentication and encryption a challenging task. In this paper, an overview of MCC authentication protocols is presented. Then, a Dual-Factor Authentication Protocol for MCC devices (D-FAP) is proposed. D-FAP aims at increasing authentication security by using multi-factors while offloading computation to the cloud to reduce battery consumption. The security of the protocol is formally verified and informal analysis is performed for various attacks. The results prove that the D-FAP is successful in mitigating various outsider and insider attacks.

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Private Cloud Storage Forensics: Seafile as a Case Study

Cited by 7 publications

References 74 publications

Secure Cloud Storage Solution with “Seafile” & “NextCloud”: A Resilient Efficiency Assessment

Secure Cloud Storage Solution with “Seafile” & “NextCloud”: A Resilient Efficiency Assessment

Digital Forensic Tools Used in Analyzing Cybercrime

D-FAP: Dual-Factor Authentication Protocol for Mobile Cloud Connected Devices

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