A Noninteractive Multireplica Provable Data Possession Scheme Based on Smart Contract

Abstract

With the explosive growth of data, cloud storage has become a widely used storage method. To protect the integrity and availability of data in cloud storage systems, multireplica provable data possession has gradually become a research hotspot. This paper uses smart contracts to replace traditional third-party auditor (TPA) and proposes a noninteractive multireplica provable data possession scheme based on smart contracts, making the verification process public, immutable, traceable, and able to be carried out periodically and automatically. This paper introduces the concept of noninteractivity to reduce the transaction fees caused by the frequent operation of blockchain in the verification process. By stipulating payment rules in the smart contract, we can ensure the fairness of all parties. Finally, we give the correctness proof of the scheme and the security proof in the random oracle model, comparing it with other schemes and verifying the practicability of our scheme through experiments.