Title :
The Design and Implementation of Android File Access Control System
Author :
Huang, Linya ; Wen, Qiaoyan
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Networking & Switching Technol., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China
Abstract :
Android is a popular operating system on mobile devices, and people care about the security issues of Android very much. Based on the analysis of the defects in Android security mechanism, this paper proposes the design and implementation of an Android File Access Control System that supplies authorization and authentication to the file operations in order to prevent the sensitive files. The simulation results indicate that the Android File Access Control System achieves the goal of file access control on Android.
Keywords :
Linux; authorisation; file organisation; mobile computing; Android file access control system design; Android security mechanism; authentication; authorization; file operations; mobile devices; operating system; security issues; Androids; Authorization; Humanoid robots; Kernel; XML; Android; Linux kernel; access control; virtual file system;
Conference_Titel :
Business Computing and Global Informatization (BCGIN), 2012 Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4469-2
DOI :
10.1109/BCGIN.2012.205
