One Cloud: A Secure and Anonymous Multi-Cloud Oblivious Storage Architecture

Abstract

We present a cross-cloud storage architecture that protects both user’s data and privacy from cloud providers or potential adversaries by leveraging the concept of Oblivious RAM on a logical layer. Our architecture allows users to conceal reading/writing operations and access sequences from clouds in order to prevent the leakage of access patterns, which may be a threat to data security. In addition, an anonymity preserving mechanism applied in our architecture makes it difficult to track users' data or confirm users' identities, which can effectively protect users' privacy. One Cloud, the proof-of-concept prototype of our architecture integrates four major cloud storage services and implements all key techniques we proposed in our architecture. We deploy it in a real-world network environment to analyze and evaluate the performance and the scalability of our architecture.