Title: S²PAD: secure self-certified public auditing for data integrity in cloud storage and its extension

Authors: Jianhong Zhang; Xubing Zhao; Weina Zhen

Addresses: College of Sciences, North China University of Technology, Beijing 100144, China; ISN Key State Lab., Xidian University, 710071, Xi'an Shaanxi, China ' Institute of Image Process and Pattern Recognize, North China University of Technology, Beijing 100144, China ' Institute of Image Process and Pattern Recognize, North China University of Technology, Beijing 100144, China

Abstract: Cloud storage is an important service of cloud computing, it can offer services for data owners in a pay-as-you-go fashion. In cloud storage, after data files are outsourced, data owner no longer has physical controls over the storage. To protect the outsourced data in cloud storage against corruptions, several public auditing schemes for data integrity checking were proposed to achieve data integrity checking. The existing auditing schemes make the auditor execute high computation to check data integrity. It might become a burden for a lot of data owner. To solve the above problem, we propose a novel public auditing scheme with public verifiability and constant communication cost based on self-certified signature scheme in this paper. Thorough analysis shows that our proposed scheme is secure and efficient. The security of our scheme is based on the fixed inversion (FI) problem of the bilinear map and the inversion of hash function. Finally, based on the above protocol, we extend it into multi-user setting.

Keywords: cloud computing; self-certified cryptography; integrity checking; security proof; provably secure; random oracle model; cryptography.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICT.2018.089027

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 2018 Vol.12 No.1/2, pp.113 - 130

Received: 20 Sep 2014
Accepted: 06 May 2015
Published online: 04 Jan 2018 *

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