ОБОБЩЕННЫЙ СПОСОБ ПРИМЕНЕНИЯ ХЭШ-ФУНКЦИИ ДЛЯ КОНТРОЛЯ ЦЕЛОСТНОСТИ ДАННЫХ

Abstract

Data storage systems designed for storing large multidimensional arrays of information, functioning in conditions of destructive influences of an attacker and the environment, are considered. One of the most urgent tasks for such systems is the organization of secure data storage, and taking into account such operating conditions - ensuring their integrity. Ensuring data integrity is a difficult task, due to its complexity, as it includes both recovery and data integrity control. One of the well-known and widely used methods of data integrity control is the use of cryptographic methods, in particular, the hashing function. However, despite the widespread use of hash functions, they have been very little researched, and practical proposals for their use are very few and are characterized by a number of disadvantages associated with the need to introduce a high redundancy of control information. In the context of limitations on the existing resource of data storage systems, this can lead to a decrease in the probability of completing the task of their functioning, or even to its failure. A generalized method is proposed, the use of which will reduce the amount of introduced redundancy when monitoring the integrity of information in data storage systems, based on the use of cryptographic hash functions, a distinctive feature of which is the use of rules for constructing error-resistant codes. In addition, the developed method provides the data integrity control procedure with a new property: the ability to control the integrity of not only the data to be protected, but also the reference hash codes themselves. Calculated data of the required volume of the introduced redundancy are obtained when monitoring the data integrity in existing storage systems using the developed method.