New Data Storage System Techniques Revealed

Researchers from the University of Southern California at Los Angeles and the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Islamabad, Pakistan have detailed a new data storage technique. As Information Week reports, the technique provides security, as well as plausible deniability by disguising stored data as random disk fragmentation. If implemented correctly, a digital forensic investigator might not even know that secret information was stored on the drive.

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"This type of covert channel could also have enterprise security applications, such as creating a covert password safe. Likewise, ‘it could also be used to implement a software copy protection mechanism or information tracking/watermarking mechanism,’ or even as part of a data leakage protection mechanism, said Mirza. ‘We did not go into these applications, since--as academics--we wanted to bring to light the simplicity and novelty of the idea, rather than dwell on the applications. We left that part to the readers.’"

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