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User-Differentiated Hierarchical Key Management For The Bring-Your-Own-Device Environments, Di Xie

Open Access Theses

To ensure confidentiality, the sensitive electronic data held within a corporation is always carefully encrypted and stored in a manner so that it is inaccessible to those parties who are not involved. During this process, the specific manners of how to keep, distribute, use, and update keys which are used to encrypt the sensitive data become an important thing to be considered. Through use of hierarchical key management, a technique that provides access controls in multi-user systems where a portion of sensitive resources shall only be made available to authorized users or security ordinances, required information is distributed on a …