Improved fair and dynamic provable data possession supporting public verification

Abstract

A number of proposals have been suggested to tackle data integrity and privacy concerns in cloud storage in which some existing schemes suffer from vulnerabilities in data dynamics. In this paper, we propose an improved fairness and dynamic provable data possession scheme that supports public verification and batch auditing while preserves data privacy. The rb23Tree is utilized to facilitate data dynamics. Moreover, the fairness is considered to prevent a dishonest user from accusing the cloud service provider of manipulating the data. The scheme allows a third party auditor (TPA) to verify the data integrity without learning any information about the data content during the auditing process. Furthermore, our scheme also allows batch auditing, which greatly accelerates the auditing process when there are multiple auditing requests. Security analysis and extensive experimental evaluations show that our scheme is secure and efficient.