Comment on “Privacy-preserving public auditing for non-manager group shared data”

Using cloud storage, users can remotely store their data without the burden on complicated local storage management and maintenance. However, users will no longer physically possess the storage of their data after they upload the data to the cloud. It is very natural for users to suspect whether their data stored in the cloud is intact. To help users efficiently check the integrity of the outsourced data, many public auditing schemes have been proposed. Recently, Huang et al. have proposed a privacy-preserving public auditing scheme for non-manager group shared data. In this paper, we find a security flaw in their auditing scheme. Even if the cloud has deleted or polluted the whole outsourced data, it still can pass the verification of the verifier. And then, we overcome this shortcoming by improving their scheme, which prevents the cloud forging a valid proof to pass the integrity auditing. Last, we perform the concrete implementation of our improved scheme and Huang et al. ’s scheme.

     

Cloud data integrity checking with an identity-based auditing mechanism from RSA

Cloud data auditing is extremely essential for securing cloud storage since it enables cloud users to verify the integrity of their outsourced data efficiently. The computation overheads on both the cloud server and the verifier can be significantly reduced by making use of data auditing because there is no necessity to retrieve the entire file but rather just use a spot checking technique. A number of cloud data auditing schemes have been proposed recently, but a majority of the proposals are based on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). There are some drawbacks in these protocols: (1) It is mandatory to verify the validity of public key certificates before using any public key, which makes the verifier incur expensive computation cost. (2) Complex certificate management makes the whole protocol inefficient. To address the key management issues in cloud data auditing, in this paper, we propose ID-CDIC, an identity-based cloud data integrity checking protocol which can eliminate the complex certificate management in traditional cloud data integrity checking protocols. The proposed concrete construction from RSA signature can support variable-sized file blocks and public auditing. In addition, we provide a formal security model for ID-CDIC and prove the security of our construction under the RSA assumption with large public exponents in the random oracle model. We demonstrate the performance of our proposal by developing a prototype of the protocol. Implementation results show that the proposed ID-CDIC protocol is very practical and adoptable in real life.     

Cryptanalysis and improvement of Panda - public auditing for shared data in cloud and internet of things

Cloud computing and internet of things have gained remarkable popularity by a wide spectrum of users recently. Despite of the convenience of cloud storage, security challenges have risen upon the fact that users do not physically possess their data any more. Thus, some auditing schemes are introduced to ensure integrity of the outsourced data. And among them Panda is a public auditing scheme for shared data with efficient and secure user revocation proposed by Wang et al. It argued that it could verify the integrity of shared data with storage correctness and public auditing. In this paper, we analyze this scheme and find some security drawbacks. Firstly, Panda cannot preserve shared data privacy in cloud storage. Furthermore, our analysis shows that Panda is vulnerable to integrity forgery attack, which can be performed by malicious cloud servers to forge a valid auditing proof against any auditing challenge even without correct data storage. Then we pinpoint that the primary cause of the insecurity is the linear combinations of sampled data blocks without random masking properly. Finally, we propose an improvement of Panda together with data privacy preserving and sound public auditing while incurring optimal communication and computation overhead.     

基于模糊身份的动态数据审计方案

云存储服务的快速发展,也带来众多安全挑战.针对云存储数据的完整性,已有的基于模糊身份的审计方案仅仅支持静态数据,因此很多情况并不适用.本文提出了一种基于模糊身份的动态数据完整性审计方案,结合默克哈希树的动态数据结构,实现用户对云端数据的完全动态操作.该方案采用基于模糊身份的密码体制,与基于公钥基础设施的数据完整性审计方案相比,避免了对公钥证书颁发、管理、吊销的过程,降低了通信代价.并且该方案能够支持批量验证,提高认证效率.最后,本文从安全性和功能上对新方案进行分析,能够抵抗伪造攻击,也保护了数据隐私安全,并且在功能上较其他方案也有一定的优势.     

NaEPASC: a novel and efficient public auditing scheme for cloud data

Cloud computing is deemed the next-generation information technology （IT） platform, in which a data center is crucial for providing a large amount of computing and storage resources for various service applications with high quality guaranteed. However, cloud users no longer possess their data in a local data storage infrastructure, which would result in auditing for the integrity of outsourced data being a challenging problem, especially for users with constrained computing resources. Therefore, how to help the users complete the verification of the integrity of the outsourced data has become a key issue. Public verification is a critical technique to solve this problem, from which the users can resort to a third-party auditor （TPA） to check the integrity of outsourced data. Moreover, an identity-based （ID-based） public key cryptosystem would be an efficient key management scheme for certificatebased public key setting. In this paper, we combine ID-based aggregate signature and public verification to construct the protocol of provable data integrity. With the proposed mechanism, the TPA not only verifies the integrity of outsourced data on behalf of cloud users, but also alleviates the burden of checking tasks with the help of users＇ identity. Compared to previous research, the proposed scheme greatly reduces the time of auditing a single task on the TPA side. Security analysis and performance evaluation results show the high efficiency and security of the proposed scheme.     

具有紧凑标签的基于身份匿名云审计方案

云存储技术具有效率高、可扩展性强等优点。用户可以借助云存储技术节省本地的存储开销,并与他人共享数据。然而,数据存储到云服务器后,用户失去对数据的物理控制,需要有相应的机制保证云中数据的完整性。数据拥有证明（PDP,provable data possession）机制允许用户或用户委托的第三方审计员（TPA,third party auditor）对数据完整性进行验证。但在实际应用中,数据通常由多个用户共同维护,用户在进行完整性验证请求的同时泄露了自己的身份。匿名云审计支持 TPA 在完成数据完整性验证时保证用户的匿名性。在基于身份体制下,匿名云审计方案通常需要借助基于身份的环签名或群签名技术实现,数据标签的构成元素与用户数量相关,使得数据标签不够紧凑,存储效率较低。为了解决这一问题,提出一种基于身份的匿名云审计方案通用构造,使用一个传统体制下的签名方案和一个传统体制下的匿名云审计方案即可构造一个基于身份的匿名云审计方案。基于该通用构造,使用 BLS 签名和一个传统体制下具有紧凑标签的匿名云审计方案设计了具有紧凑标签的基于身份匿名云审计方案。该方案主要优势在于数据标签短,能够减少云服务器的存储压力,提高存储效率。此外,证明了该方案的不可欺骗性和匿名性。     

云存储完整性验证密码学技术研究进展

云存储完整性验证技术允许用户将数据存储至云端服务器,并为用户提供可验证的完整性保证。典型的云存储完整性验证方案由两个阶段组成：一是数据处理阶段,用户使用私钥处理数据、生成可验证的元数据存储于云服务器,而本地只需保存与数据相关的一些参数,如密钥和数据标签等;二是数据完整性验证阶段,验证者通过和云服务器交互执行一个挑战/证明协议,能够以极高的概率判断出云端数据当前的完整性。到目前为止,已经涌现了大量的相关密码学方案。本文对可证明安全的可公开验证的云存储完整性验证关键密码学技术研究进展进行简要回顾,主要涵盖代理数据外包技术、代理完整性验证技术、基于身份的数据外包技术以及几种计算和通信效率优化技术等。     

A Lightweight And privacy-preserving public cloud auditing scheme without bilinear pairings in smart cities

Smart Cities have become a global strategy. However, massive data generated by various smart devices need to be uploaded and stored to the cloud servers. It is critical to ensure the integrity and privacy of the stored data. Quite a few public cloud auditing schemes have been proposed recently. However, most of them use bilinear pairing operations in the audit phase, requiring a significant time cost. Meanwhile, users (may be resource-constrained mobile devices or sensor nodes) still need to perform significant computations, like computing meta data for each data block, which bring a huge burden of calculation for these users. Moreover, those schemes cannot effectively protect users’ data privacy. Thus, we propose a lightweight and privacy-preserving public cloud auditing scheme for smart cities that does not require bilinear pairings. First, the proposed scheme is pairing-free, and allowing a third party auditor to generate authentication meta set on behalf of users. Furthermore, it also protects data privacy against the third party auditor and the cloud service providers. In addition, this new scheme can be easily and naturally extended to batch auditing in a multi-user scenario. Detailed security and performance analyses show that the proposed scheme is more secure and efficient compared to the existing public cloud auditing schemes.     

Secure and efficient privacy-preserving public auditing scheme for cloud storage

Cloud computing poses many challenges on integrity and privacy of users’ data though it brings an easy, cost-effective and reliable way of data management. Hence, secure and efficient methods are needed to ensure integrity and privacy of data stored at the cloud. Wang et al. proposed a privacy-preserving public auditing protocol in 2010 but it is seriously insecure. Their scheme is vulnerable to attacks from malicious cloud server and outside attackers regarding to storage correctness. So they proposed a scheme in 2011 with an improved security guarantee but it is not efficient. Thus, in this paper, we proposed a scheme which is secure and with better efficiency. It is a public auditing scheme with third party auditor (TPA), who performs data auditing on behalf of user(s). With detail security analysis, our scheme is proved secure in the random oracle model and our performance analysis shows the scheme is efficient.     

Security analysis of a publicly verifiable data possession scheme for remote storage

As an essential technology of cloud computing, the cloud storage can exactly satisfy the demand of users with the service of scalability, ubiquitous access and low maintenance cost. However, moving data to the cloud servers will bring some significant security challenges due to the loss of the physical data possession. In order to verify the data integrity, many verifiable data possession schemes have been proposed in last several years. Very recently, Tang and Zhang proposed a new publicly verifiable data possession (PVDP) scheme for remote storage. They claimed that their scheme was suitable for checking the storage correctness and secure against various types of attacks. In this paper, we analyze the security of Tang and Zhang’s PVDP scheme and prove that it is vulnerable to the data recovery attack. We also demonstrate that PVDP scheme works incorrectly with a concrete instance. Our analysis shows that their scheme is not suitable for practical applications. Our work can help cryptographers and engineers design and implement more secure and efficient public auditing schemes for the cloud storage data.     

高效可撤销的共享数据云存储审计

共享数据的云存储审计是指对群用户共享的云数据的完整性进行审计. 由于在共享数据云存储审计中, 用户可能因各种原因加入和离开用户群, 因此这种方案通常支持群用户撤销. 在大多数现存的共享数据云审计方案中, 用户撤销的计算开销与用户群要上传的文件块总数成线性关系, 造成很大的计算和通信代价, 如何减少用户撤销产生的计算和通...     

Efficient data integrity auditing for storage security in mobile health cloud

Cloud storage services can enable data owners to eliminate the need for the initial investment of expensive infrastructure setup and also minimize development and maintenance costs. Outsourcing the health data to e-health cloud storage server is very beneficial. Nonetheless, storing the health data on cloud servers also brings serious security challenges. In this paper, we propose a highly efficient data integrity auditing scheme for cloud storage for mobile health applications. The authentication tag for each data block generated by biosensor nodes is minimal in our scheme due to the use of hash operation. Moreover, in data integrity checking phase, message-locked encryption scheme is utilized to encrypt and transport the auditing information of the checked data blocks, which significantly reduces the required amount of calculation and communication resources. Compared with the conventional third party auditing schemes, the presented scheme speeds up the tag generation and tag checking process by more than one thousand times.     

Further improvement of an identity-based signcryption scheme in the standard model

Signcryption is a cryptographic primitive that fulfills both the functions of digital signature and public key encryption simultaneously, at a cost significantly lower than that required by the traditional signature-then-encryption approach. In 2009, Yu et al. proposed an identity-based signcryption scheme in the standard model. In 2010, Jin et al. pointed out that Yu et al.’s scheme cannot achieve the semantic security and proposed an improved identity-based signcryption scheme. They proved that the improved scheme is semantically secure in the standard model. Recently, Li et al. showed that the Jin-et al.’s scheme cannot achieve the semantic security and existential unforgeability. To remedy the weaknesses of the Jin-et al.’s scheme, we give a further improvement in this paper. Our scheme satisfies semantic security and existential unforgeability.     

基于盲签名的云共享数据完整性审计方案

云端共享数据完整性审计用来验证一个用户群组共享在云端的数据的完整性。传统方式下,成员用户需要为每一个数据块生成认证器,再将数据块和对应的认证器上传到云服务器中保存。然而用户的计算资源有限且计算能力不高,由用户产生数据块认证器需要消耗用户很大的计算开销。为了节省用户的计算资源,提高认证器生成的效率,提出基于盲签名算法的云共享数据完整性审计方案。用户先对数据块进行盲化再发送到认证器生成中心生成相应的认证器,此外,方案中对第三方审计者TPA进行审计授权,有效地避免了攻击者对于云服务器的DDoS攻击。安全性分析和实验结果表明该方案是安全、高效的。     

基于区块链的云数据审计方案

云存储凭借高扩展性、高可靠性、低成本的数据管理优点得到用户青睐。然而,如何确保云数据完整性成为亟待解决的安全挑战。目前的云数据完整性审计方案,绝大部分是基于半可信第三方来提供公共审计服务,它们存在单点失效、性能瓶颈以及泄露用户隐私等问题。针对这些缺点提出了基于区块链的审计模型。该模型采用分布式网络、共识算法建立一个去中心化、易扩展的网络解决单点失效问题和计算力瓶颈,利用区块链技术和共识算法加密用户数据保证数据不可窜改和伪造,确保了用户数据的隐私。实验结果表明,与基于半可信第三方云数据审计方案相比,该模型能够保护用户隐私,显著提高了审计效率,减少通信开销。     

基于智能合约的工业互联网数据公开审计方案

随着工业互联网产生的数据量日益增加,越来越多的企业选择将工业互联网数据外包存储在云服务器上以节省存储开销.为了防止外包存储的数据被篡改或删除,企业需要定期对其进行审计.提出了一种基于智能合约的工业互联网数据公开审计方案.该方案基于博弈论的思想,设计了一系列智能合约,以高效地抵抗参与者恶意行为.与现有抗合谋的公开审计方案相比,该方案不依赖于复杂的密码学工具实现对参与者恶意行为的抵抗,使得其更为高效,进而能够更好地应用于海量且频繁更新的工业互联网数据场景中.特别地,所设计的博弈合约作为一种独立的工具,能够与现有的公开审计方案有效结合,在不降低其审计效率的同时,增加方案的安全性.在本地环境和以太坊公有测试链Ropsten上对博弈合约以及整体方案进行了一系列的测试,结果表明,所设计的合约运行花费低且对运行环境适应性强,对原有完整性审计方案的效率影响小;同时,与其他抗审计者恶意行为的完整性方案相比,该方案更为高效.     

用户可动态撤销及数据可实时更新的云审计方案

随着云存储的出现,越来越多的用户选择将大量数据存储在远程云服务器上,以节约本地存储资源.如何验证用户远程存储在云端数据的完整性,成为近年来学术界的一个研究热点.虽然现已提出了很多云审计方案,但大多数方案都假设个人和企业在使用云存储系统的整个过程中,用户及其公私钥始终不变,且不能高效地对数据进行实时动态更新.为此,提出一种轻量级的支持用户可动态撤销及存储数据可动态更新的云审计方案.首先,该方案允许用户可高效地动态撤销（包括更换公私钥）,在用户撤销阶段,采用了多重单向代理重签名技术,新用户只需计算重签名密钥,而无需从云端下载数据再重新签名后上传到云端;其次,该方案能够保证数据可实时动态更新（插入、删除、修改）,通过在数据块的身份识别码中引入虚拟索引,数据动态更新时,只有被更新数据块的身份识别码发生变化,其余数据块的身份识别码保持不变;最后,在重签名阶段,云服务器代替新用户进行签名,在审计阶段,第三方审计者代表当前用户对存储在远程云服务器上的数据进行完整性验证,减轻了终端用户的计算开销及系统的通信开销（轻量级）.安全性分析和性能分析进一步说明,该方案是安全的和高效的.     

Privacy-preserving public auditing for educational multimedia data in cloud computing

Nowadays, as distance learning is being widly used, multimedia data becomes an effective way for delivering educational contents in online educational systems. To handle the educational multimedia data efficiently, many distance learning systems adopt a cloud storage service. Cloud computing and storage services provide a secure and reliable access to the outsourced educational multimedia contents for users. However, it brings challenging security issues in terms of data confidentiality and integrity. The straightforward way for the integrity check is to make the user download the entire data for verifying them. But, it is inefficient due to the large size of educational multimedia data in the cloud. Recently many integrity auditing protocols have been proposed, but most of them do not consider the data privacy for the cloud service provider. Additionally, the previous schemes suffer from dynamic management of outsourced data. In this paper, we propose a public auditing protocol for educational multimedia data outsourced in the cloud storage. By using random values and a homomorphic hash function, our proposed protocol ensures data privacy for the cloud and the third party auditor (TPA). Also, it is secure against lose attack and temper attack. Moreover, our protocol is able to support fully dynamic auditing. Security and performance analysis results show that the proposed scheme is secure while guaranteeing minimum extra computation costs.     

Towards Public Integrity Audition for Cloud-IoT Data Based on Blockchain

With the rapidly developing of Internet of Things (IoT), the volume of data generated by IoT systems is increasing quickly. To release the pressure of data management and storage, more and more enterprises and individuals prefer to integrate cloud service with IoT systems, in which the IoT data can be outsourced to cloud server. Since cloud service provider (CSP) is not fully trusted, a variety of methods have been proposed to deal with the problem of data integrity checking. In traditional data integrity audition schemes, the task of data auditing is usually performed by Third Party Auditor (TPA) which is assumed to be trustful. However, in real-life TPA is not trusted as people thought. Therefore, these schemes suffer from the underlying problem of single-point failure. Moreover, most of the traditional schemes are designed by RSA or bilinear map techniques which consume heavy computation and communication cost. To overcome these shortcomings, we propose a novel data integrity checking scheme for cloud-IoT data based on blockchain technique and homomorphic hash. In our scheme, the tags of all data blocks are computed by a homomorphic hash function and stored in blockchain. Moreover, each step within the process of data integrity checking is signed by the performer, and the signatures are stored in blockchain through smart contracts. As a result, each behavior for data integrity checking in our scheme can be traced and audited which improves the security of the scheme greatly. Furthermore, batch-audition for multiple data challenges is also supported in our scheme. We formalize the system model of our scheme and give the concrete construction. Detailed performance analyses demonstrate that our proposed scheme is efficient and practical without the trust-assumption of TPA.     

支持动态操作的多副本数据完整性验证方案

针对云存储环境下外包数据面临的安全隐患，并结合现有云数据完整性验证方案的不足，提出了支持动态操作的多副本数据完整性验证方案。方案考虑了多副本应用场景，并在现有云数据完整性验证方案的基础上以较小的代价实现了文件的多副本验证，并通过引入认证的数据结构—基于等级的Merkle哈希树，实现了文件的可验证动态更新。通过对多副本进行关联，可以实现多个副本的同步更新。安全性分析与实验表明了该方案的安全性与有效性，实现了数据的安全存储与更新，并有效保证了数据多副本的隐私安全。