PASIS
Engineering Survivable Storage

PASIS

The PASIS project is building survivable storage systems and developing an engineering understanding of the associated trade-offs.

SURVIVABLE STORAGE SYSTEMS

PASIS is a survivable storage system. Survivable storage systems can guarantee the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of stored data even when some storage nodes fail or are compromised by an intruder. Some such systems also offer user anonymity. Survivable storage systems build on decentralized storage systems by encoding and distributing data across many storage nodes. Thus, key design decisions center on how data is encoded and distributed, and these decisions dictate the performance, security, and availability guarantees offered by the system.

PASIS

There is an inherent trade-off amongst security, availability, and performance in a survivable storage system. In the PASIS project, we are building a general survivable storage system that enables us to experiment with many different mechanisms for data encoding and distribution. Using this platform, we are developing models of the performance, security, and availability of stored data. These models will enable us to perform an engineering analysis and identify which encoding and distribution schemes best meet the overall requirements for a particular storage system.