Security in Android File System
Miss Kirti, Prajakta Lokhande · IJCRT - International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts (IJCRT) · 2013
Recently smart gadgets including smart phones and tablets are gaining popularity. These devices contain Personal Identifiable Information. An attacker can compromise a smart phone and gain full control of it by connecting another computing device to it using the USB physical link. Moreover, by simply capturing the smart phones physically, adversaries have access to confidential or even classified data if the owners are the government officials or military personnels. In this project, here discuss a secure and encrypted file system on Android operating system and optimize the performance using certified encryption algorithm BlowFish provided in OPENSSL libraries. This project presents EncFS which is a FUSE (File system in USErspace) based file-system offering encryption file system to protect the removable and persistent storage on heterogeneous smart gadget devices running the Android platform. In proposed methodology, the data at rest including physical partition on the device and removable storage card is encrypted using user provided password. The encrypted file system is mounted only after successful password verification with user at system boot up.