An Authorized Public Auditing Scheme for Dynamic Big Data Storage in Cloud Computing

Abstract

Nowadays, to utilize the abundant resources of cloud computing, most enterprise users prefer to store their big data on cloud servers for sharing and utilization. However, storing data in remote cloud servers is out of user's control and exposes to lots of security problems such data availability, unauthorized access and data integrity, among which data integrity is a challenging and urgent task in cloud computing. Many auditing schemes have been proposed to check the integrity of data in cloud, but these schemes usually have some disadvantages. One is that these auditing schemes cannot check which block is corrupt when the data is not integrated. The other is that there's no efficient authenticated data structure helping to achieve accurate auditing when the data needs to update frequently. To solve the problems, we propose a public auditing scheme for dynamic big data storage in cloud computing. Firstly, we design a dynamic index table, in which no elements need to be moved in insertion or deletion update operations. Secondly, when data in cloud is not integrated, the third-party auditor can detect which block is corrupt. Finally, an authorization is employed between the third party and cloud servers to prevent denial of service attack. The theoretical analysis and the simulation results demonstrate that our scheme is more secure and efficient.