Abstract
Cloud storage provides elastic storage services for enterprises and individuals remotely. However, security problems such as data integrity are becoming a major obstacle. Recently, blockchain-based verification approaches have been extensively studied to get rid of a centralized third-party auditor. Most of these schemes suffer from poor scalability and low search efficiency and even fail to support data dynamic update operations on blockchain, which limits their large-scale and practical applications. In this work, we propose a blockchain-based dynamic data integrity verification scheme for cloud storage with T-Merkle hash tree. A decentralized scheme is proposed to eliminate the restrictions of previous centralized schemes. The data tags are generated by the technique of ZSS short signature and stored on blockchain. An improved verification method is designed to check the integrity of cloud data by transferring computation from a verifier to cloud server and blockchain. Furthermore, a storage structure called T-Merkle hash tree which is built based on T-tree and Merkle hash tree is designed to improve storage utilization of blockchain and support binary search on chain. Moreover, we achieve efficient and secure dynamic update operations on blockchain by an append-only manner. Besides, we extend our scheme to support batch verification to handle massive tasks simultaneously; thus, the efficiency is improved and communication cost is reduced. Finally, we implemented a prototype system based on Hyperledger Fabric to validate our scheme. Security analysis and performance studies show that the proposed scheme is secure and efficient.
Highlights
Nowadays, more and more companies have built their cloud computing services and open them to individuals or other enterprises, for instance, Amazon, Alibaba, Tencent, and Microsoft
In consideration of the key points of integrity verification and data dynamics for large-scale cloud storage, we propose a decentralized and dynamic integrity verification scheme with blockchain to check data integrity without requiring third-party auditor (TPA) and support fast retrieval. e main contributions can be summarized as follows
Implementation of verification algorithms in this work is based on the Pairing-Based Cryptography (PBC) library with a.param, in which the group order and the base field order are 160 bits and 512 bits, respectively. e three different types of trees are implemented by Go programming language
Summary
More and more companies have built their cloud computing services and open them to individuals or other enterprises, for instance, Amazon, Alibaba, Tencent, and Microsoft. As an important service of cloud computing, cloud storage allows clients remotely to store their data in cloud. Clients enjoy many benefits, such as relieving themselves of heavy storage management, unlimited access at any time and any place, reducing expenditure on hardware/software, and employee maintenances. One big problem is how to make sure that the integrity of outsourced data is intact. Data loss or corruption with cloud servers often occurs due to malicious attacks, hardware failures, insider attacks, and even human mistakes [1,2,3]
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