Implementing Encrypted Private Data Sharing between Personal Data Vaults

Anushka Vidanage, Jess Moore, Dawei Chen, Graham Williams, Sergio José Rodríguez Méndez, Tony Chen

Keywords: Solid, personal data vaults, encryption, data privacy, consent

TL;DR: This paper describes the design and implementation of a Trust No One Environment for secure data storage and private sharing of files on personal data vaults.

Abstract: Adoption of the open Solid specification is emerging as a paradigm shift providing a people-centred model for data storage and ownership, where individuals control access to their data, enabling data sovereignty to be returned to people. By applying a Zero Trust approach to security of data, the Australian National University (ANU) Software Innovation Institute (SII) has designed a Trust No One (TNO) environment for storing data on personal online data stores using encryption and public key cryptography. This TNO environment has been implemented by the ANU SII as a part of two collaborative projects in the health sector that required secure data storage and linked data infrastructure, provided on a basis of data sovereignty and privacy using personal data vaults.

Submission Number: 11