2020 – 2021

Cryptographic Public Verification of Data Integrity for Cloud Storage

Systems

Abstract :
Cloud storage services allow users to outsource their data to cloud servers to save on local data
storage costs. However, unlike using local storage devices, users don't physically own the data stored
on cloud servers and can't be certain about the integrity of the cloud-stored data. Many public
verification schemes have been proposed to allow a third-party auditor to verify the integrity of
outsourced data. However, most of these schemes assume that the auditors are honest and reliable, so
are vulnerable to malicious auditors. Moreover, in most of these schemes, an external adversary
could modify the outsourced data and tamper with the interaction messages between the cloud server
and the auditor, thus invalidating the outsourced data integrity verification. This article proposes an
efficient and secure public verification of data integrity scheme that protects against external
adversaries and malicious auditors. The proposed scheme adopts a random masking technique to
protect against external adversaries, and requires users to audit auditors' behaviors to prevent
malicious auditors from fabricating verification results. It uses Bitcoin to construct unbiased
challenge messages to thwart collusion between malicious auditors and cloud servers. A performance
analysis demonstrates that the proposed scheme is efficient in terms of the user's auditing
overhead. LESS

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