A secure control protocol for USB mass storage devices

Author

Yang, Fuw-Yi ; Wu, Tzung-Da ; Chiu, Su-Hui

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng. Dept., Chaoyang Univ. of Technol., Taichung, Taiwan

Volume

56

Issue

4

fYear

2010

fDate

11/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2239

Lastpage

2343

Abstract

The Universal Serial Bus (USB) has become the most popular interface standard for hardware connection, and there has been an explosion in the number of USB peripheral devices. External USB storage devices, in particular, are finding widespread application. Unfortunately, because USB affords high transmission speeds and is extremely convenient, many workplaces and businesses have prohibited the use of USB devices to prevent confidential data from being extracted from computer systems via USB ports. However, this compromises the convenience of the USB connection and demonstrates a lack of flexibility in management. Therefore, finding a way to take the considerations of both convenience and management into account has become a significant issue. This study proposes a secure control protocol which provides mutual authentication and key agreement between client and server to solve this problem.

Keywords

peripheral interfaces; protocols; USB mass storage devices; USB peripheral devices; USB ports; computer systems; external USB storage devices; mutual authentication; secure control protocol; universal serial bus; Authentication; Computers; Encryption; Protocols; Servers; Universal Serial Bus; Diffie-Hellman key exchange, digital signature, key agreement, mutual authentication, storage device, Universal Serial Bus (USB).;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCE.2010.5681109

Filename

5681109