Title: Data integrity checking with reliable data transfer for secure cloud storage

Authors: Yong Wang; Xiaoling Tao; Jianbing Ni; Yong Yu

Addresses: Guangxi Cooperative Innovation Center of Cloud Computing and Big Data, Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Cloud Computing and Complex Systems, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China ' Guangxi Cooperative Innovation Center of Cloud Computing and Big Data, Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Cloud Computing and Complex Systems, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China ' Guangxi Cooperative Innovation Center of Cloud Computing and Big Data, Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Cloud Computing and Complex Systems, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China ' Guangxi Cooperative Innovation Center of Cloud Computing and Big Data, Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Cloud Computing and Complex Systems, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China

Abstract: Currently, an increasing number of data owners prefer to store their data on remote servers due to a number of appealing advantages of cloud storage, say convenience and simplicity, scalability of the service and ubiquitous network access. However, outsourced data's transfer becomes a critical requirement for cloud users because of the emergence of various cloud storage services with different qualities of services. Therefore, the users might not only be anxious about the status of their data on cloud servers but also care whether the data are transferred entirely to the new cloud without corruption and whether the data on original cloud are discarded. To address these challenging issues, in this paper, we propose a novel auditing scheme for cloud storage services characterised by secure data transfer, provable data erasure, high error detection probability, confidential data storage. The proposed scheme can guarantee the integrity of remote data when the data are hosted on cloud servers and are transferred between two clouds, and secure deletion of the transferred data on the original cloud.

Keywords: cloud storage; data integrity; data deletion; data transfer.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWGS.2018.088396

International Journal of Web and Grid Services, 2018 Vol.14 No.1, pp.106 - 121

Received: 20 Jan 2016
Accepted: 12 Jul 2016
Published online: 05 Dec 2017 *

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