Shortfacts - December 2015 / January 2016


Innovation Award
The Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) has been awarded the 2015 Innovation Prize by the IT security association TeleTrust for CloudRaid, a secure software system for the confidential storage and sharing of data in various independent storage locations on the Internet.
The research prototype was developed in collaboration with Bundesdruckerei. The e software system represents an intermediate instance between users and providers of storage resources in the cloud. All of a user's files are split into blocks and encrypted.
The data packets are then distributed to various independent service providers. The data can be synchronized across different devices and shared with other users.
The key material remains exclusively with the user or is passed on to authorized users in a secure manner so that CloudRaid storage and service operators can never access content themselves.