Abstract
Clients of cloud service providers often require that controls be placed on cloud-resource names and attributes such that these cannot be read by employees of the service provider. This disclosure describes techniques that enable users to define descriptive, recognizable, and memorable identifiers that prevent deciphering of the significance of the object underlying an identifier. Such user-defined identifiers, termed as ‘neutral’ or ‘innocuous,’ are similar to secure IDs, and can be used to label sensitive resources to prevent unauthorized individuals from guessing the nature of the data underlying the identifier. Neutral, user-defined identifiers are created by having the identifiers conform to a schema that prevents an easy deciphering of the object underlying the identifier, while still enabling the identifier to be easily recognizable and memorable. An attempt by a user in a secure account to create a resource with an identifier meaningful enough to compromise security is rejected.
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Recommended Citation
Newton, Brandt and Dharan, Ramesh, "Neutral User-defined Identifiers for Computational Resources", Technical Disclosure Commons, (August 01, 2024)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/7257