The Design and Implementation of a Rekeying-Aware Encrypted Deduplication Storage System

Abstract

Rekeying refers to an operation of replacing an existing key with a new key for encryption. It renews security protection to protect against key compromise and enable dynamic access control in cryptographic storage. However, it is non-trivial to realize efficient rekeying in encrypted deduplication storage systems, which use deterministic content-derived encryption keys to allow deduplication on ciphertexts. We design and implement a rekeying-aware encrypted deduplication (REED) storage system. REED builds on a deterministic version of all-or-nothing transform, such that it enables secure and lightweight rekeying, while preserving the deduplication capability. We propose two REED encryption schemes that trade between performance and security and extend REED for dynamic access control. We implement a REED prototype with various performance optimization techniques and demonstrate how we can exploit similarity to mitigate key generation overhead. Our trace-driven testbed evaluation shows that our REED prototype maintains high performance and storage efficiency.