Earp: Principled Storage, Sharing, and Protection for Mobile Apps

Authors: 

Yuanzhong Xu, Tyler Hunt, Youngjin Kwon, and Martin Georgiev, The University of Texas at Austin; Vitaly Shmatikov, Cornell Tech; Emmett Witchel, The University of Texas at Austin

Abstract: 

Modern mobile apps need to store and share structured data, but the coarse-grained access-control mechanisms in existing mobile operating systems are inadequate to help apps express and enforce their protection requirements.

We design, implement, and evaluate a prototype of Earp, a new mobile platform that uses the relational model as the unified OS-level abstraction for both storage and inter-app services. Earp provides apps with structureaware, OS-enforced access control, bringing order and protection to the Wild West of mobile data management.

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BibTeX
@inproceedings {194980,
author = {Yuanzhong Xu and Tyler Hunt and Youngjin Kwon and Martin Georgiev and Vitaly Shmatikov and Emmett Witchel},
title = {Earp: Principled Storage, Sharing, and Protection for Mobile Apps},
booktitle = {13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 16)},
year = {2016},
isbn = {978-1-931971-29-4},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
pages = {627--642},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/xu},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}
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