• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.2198-2222
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• 2019

The cloud storage service becomes a rising trend based on the cloud computing, which promotes the remote data integrity auditing a hot topic. Some research can audit the integrity and correctness of user data and solve the problem of user privacy leakage. However, these schemes cannot use fewer data blocks to achieve better auditing results. In this paper, we figure out that the random sampling used in most auditing schemes is not well apply to the problem of cloud service provider (CSP) deleting the data that users rarely use, and we adopt the probability proportionate to size sampling (PPS) to handle such situation. A new scheme named improving audit efficiency of remote data for cloud storage is designed. The proposed scheme supports the public auditing with fewer data blocks and constrains the server's malicious behavior to extend the auditing cycle. Compared with the relevant schemes, the experimental results show that the proposed scheme is more effective.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권10호
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• pp.5039-5061
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• 2017

Cloud storage becomes a new trend that more and more users move their data to cloud storage servers (CSSs). To ensure the security of cloud storage, many cloud auditing schemes are proposed to check the integrity of users' cloud data. However, most of them are based on public key infrastructure, which leads to complex certificates management and verification. Besides, most existing auditing schemes are inefficient when user uploads a large amount of data or a third party auditor (TPA) performs auditing for multiple users' data on different CSSs. To overcome these problems, in this paper, we propose an efficient and secure auditing scheme based on identity-based cryptography. To relieve user's computation burden, we introduce a proxy, which is delegated to generate and upload homomorphic verifiable tags for user. We extend our auditing scheme to support auditing for dynamic data operations. We further extend it to support batch auditing in multiple users and multiple CSSs setting, which is practical and efficient in large scale cloud storage system. Extensive security analysis shows that our scheme is provably secure in random oracle model. Performance analysis demonstrates that our scheme is highly efficient, especially reducing the computation cost of proxy and TPA.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.1043-1063
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• 2019

With delegating proxy to process data before outsourcing, data owners in restricted access could enjoy flexible and powerful cloud storage service for productivity, but still confront with data integrity breach. Identity-based data auditing as a critical technology, could address this security concern efficiently and eliminate complicated owners' public key certificates management issue. Recently, Yu et al. proposed an Identity-Based Public Auditing for Dynamic Outsourced Data with Proxy Processing (https://doi.org/10.3837/tiis.2017.10.019). It aims to offer identity-based, privacy-preserving and batch auditing for multiple owners' data on different clouds, while allowing proxy processing. In this article, we first demonstrate this scheme is insecure in the sense that malicious cloud could pass integrity auditing without original data. Additionally, clouds and owners are able to recover proxy's private key and thus impersonate it to forge tags for any data. Secondly, we propose an improved scheme with provable security in the random oracle model, to achieve desirable secure identity based privacy-preserving batch public auditing with proxy processing. Thirdly, based on theoretical analysis and performance simulation, our scheme shows better efficiency over existing identity-based auditing scheme with proxy processing on single owner and single cloud effort, which will benefit secure big data storage if extrapolating in real application.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.124-128
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• 2024

Cloud computing is a technology for delivering information in which resources are retrieved from the internet through a web-based tools and applications, rather than a direct connection with the server. It is a new emerging computing based technology in which any individual or organization can remotely store or access the information. The structure of cloud computing allows to store and access various information as long as an electronic device has access to the web. Even though various merits are provided by the cloud from the cloud provides to cloud users, it suffers from various flaws in security. Due to these flaws, data integrity and confidentiality has become a challenging task for both the storage and retrieval process. This paper proposes a novel approach for data protection by an improved auditing based methodology in cloud computing especially in the process of cloud storage. The proposed methodology is proved to be more efficient in auditing the threats while storing data in the cloud computing architecture.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제2권11호
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• pp.483-488
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• 2013

사용자들은 외부 스토리지를 사용함으로써 언제, 어디서나 자신의 데이터에 접근할 수 있다. 하지만 자신의 데이터가 어떻게 관리되고 있는지는 알 수 없다. 심지어 자신의 데이터에 손상이 발생하여도 인지할 수 없다. 이와 같은 불편을 해결하기 위해 외부 스토리지 검증기법들이 제안되었다. 대부분의 기법들이 준동형 검증 태그(homomorphic verifiable tags)를 사용하고 있지만, 이는 데이터를 지수로 하여 계산하기 때문에 효율성에 한계가 있다. 본 논문에서는 외부 스토리지 무결성 검증의 새로운 접근 방법으로써 계수행렬을 이용한 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 데이터를 계수행렬의 형태로 변환하여 검증에 사용한다. 검증과정은 선형연립방정식의 해를 구하는 형태로 진행되며, 검증자는 수식에 해벡터를 대입함으로써 쉽게 검증을 수행할 수 있다. 제안하는 기법을 사용하면 검증자는 sqrt(n) 크기의 데이터로 크기가 n인 데이터를 검증할 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권11호
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• pp.4226-4241
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• 2014

Cloud storage provides an easy, cost-effective and reliable way of data management for users without the burden of local data storage and maintenance. Whereas, this new paradigm poses many challenges on integrity and privacy of users' data, since users losing grip on their data after outsourcing the data to the cloud server. In order to address these problems, recently, Worku et al. have proposed an efficient privacy-preserving public auditing scheme for cloud storage. However, in this paper, we point out the security flaw existing in the scheme. An adversary, who is on-line and active, is capable of modifying the outsourced data arbitrarily and avoiding the detection by exploiting the security flaw. To fix this security flaw, we further propose a secure and efficient privacy-preserving public auditing scheme, which makes up the security flaw of Worku et al.'s scheme while retaining all the features. Finally, we give a formal security proof and the performance analysis, they show the proposed scheme has much more advantages over the Worku et al.'s scheme.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.3322-3347
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• 2021

Cloud Storage is the primary component of many businesses on cloud. Majority of the enterprises today are adopting a multicloud strategy to keep away from vendor lock-in and to optimize cost. Auditing schemes are used to ascertain the integrity of cloud data. Of these schemes, only the Provable Data Possession schemes (PDP) are resilient to key-exposure. These PDP schemes are devised using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI-) based cryptography, Identity-based cryptography, etc. PKI-based systems suffer from certificate-related communication/computational complexities. The Identity-based schemes deal with the exposure of only the auditing secret key (audit key). But with the exposure of both the audit key and the secret key used to update the audit key, the auditing process itself becomes a complete failure. So, an Identity-based PDP scheme with Parallel Key-Insulation is proposed for multiple cloud storage. It reduces the risk of exposure of both the audit key and the secret key used to update the audit key. It preserves the data privacy from the Third Party Auditor, secure against malicious Cloud Service Providers and facilitates batch auditing. The resilience to key-exposure is proved using the CDH assumption. Compared to the existing Identity-based multicloud schemes, it is efficient in integrity verification.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권7호
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• pp.3319-3338
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• 2016

Cloud storage is becoming more and more popular because of its elasticity and pay-as-you-go storage service manner. In some cloud storage scenarios, the data that are stored in the cloud may be shared by a group of users. To verify the integrity of cloud data in this kind of applications, many auditing schemes for shared cloud data have been proposed. However, all of these schemes do not consider the access authorization problem for users, which makes the revoked users still able to access the shared cloud data belonging to the group. In order to deal with this problem, we propose a novel public auditing scheme for shared cloud data in this paper. Different from previous work, in our scheme, the user in a group cannot any longer access the shared cloud data belonging to this group once this user is revoked. In addition, we propose a new random masking technique to make our scheme preserve both data privacy and identity privacy. Furthermore, our scheme supports to enroll a new user in a group and revoke an old user from a group. We analyze the security of the proposed scheme and justify its performance by concrete implementations.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.2219-2236
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• 2017

With cloud storage services, users can handle an enormous amount of data in an efficient manner. However, due to the widespread popularization of cloud storage, users have raised concerns about the integrity of outsourced data, since they no longer possess the data locally. To address these concerns, many auditing schemes have been proposed that allow users to check the integrity of their outsourced data without retrieving it in full. Yuan and Yu proposed a public auditing scheme with a deduplication property where the cloud server does not store the duplicated data between users. In this paper, we analyze the weakness of the Yuan and Yu's scheme as well as present modifications which could improve the security of the scheme. We also define two types of adversaries and prove that our proposed scheme is secure against these adversaries under formal security models.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.5653-5672
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• 2019

In cloud computing era, an increasing number of resource-constrained users outsource their data to cloud servers. Due to the untrustworthiness of cloud servers, it is important to ensure the integrity of outsourced data. However, most of existing solutions still have challenging issues needing to be addressed, such as the identity privacy protection of users, the traceability of users, the supporting of dynamic user operations, and the publicity of auditing. In order to tackle these issues simultaneously, in this paper, we propose a traceable dynamic public auditing scheme with identity privacy preserving for cloud storage. In the proposed scheme, a single user, including a group manager, is unable to know the signer's identity. Furthermore, our scheme realizes traceability based on a secret sharing mechanism and supports dynamic user operations. Based on the security and efficiency analysis, it is shown that our scheme is secure and efficient.