Certificateless Remote Data Integrity Auditing with Access Control of Sensitive Information in Cloud Storage

Abstract

With the spread of cloud storage technology, checking the integrity of data stored in the cloud effectively is increasingly becoming a concern. Following the introduction of the first remote data integrity audit schemes, different audit schemes with various characteristics have been proposed. However, most of the existing solutions have problems such as additional storage overhead and additional certificate burden. This paper proposes a certificateless remote data integrity auditing scheme which takes into account the storage burden and data privacy issues while ensuring the correctness of the data audit results. In addition, the certificateless design concept enables the scheme proposed in this paper to avoid a series of burdens brought by certificates. The scheme designed in this paper provides a data access control function whereby only users who hold a valid token generated by the data owner can access the target data from the cloud. Finally, this paper provides a detailed security proof to ensure the rationality of the results. A theoretical analysis and subsequent experimental verification show that the proposed scheme is both effective and feasible.