Privacy-Preserving and Unforgeable Searchable Encrypted Audit Logs for Cloud Storage

Abstract

Audit logs are widely used in information systems nowadays. In cloud computing and cloud storage environment, audit logs are required to be encrypted and outsourced on remote servers to protect the confidentiality of data and the privacy of users. The searchable encrypted audit logs support a search on the encrypted audit logs. In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving and unforgeable searchable encrypted audit log scheme based on PEKS. Only the trusted data owner can generate encrypted audit logs containing access permissions for users. The semi-honest server verifies the audit logs in a searchable encryption way before granting the operation rights to users and storing the audit logs. The data owner can perform a fine-grained conjunctive query on the stored audit logs, and accept only the valid audit logs. The scheme is immune to the collusion tamper or fabrication conducted by server and user. Concrete implementations of the scheme is put forward in detail. The correct of the scheme is proved, and the security properties, such as privacy-preserving, searchability, verifiability and unforgeability are analyzed. Further evaluation of computation load shows that the design is of considerable efficiency.