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TrustBus 2015: Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business pp 124–135Cite as

Accountability-Preserving Anonymous Delivery of Cloud Services

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Cloud computing is an emerging paradigm whose importance both in large and small business is more and more increasing. As one of the reasons motivating the adoption of cloud computing solutions is to alleviate the load of companies related to the solution of security and disaster recovery issues, security is one of the main features to fulfill in a cloud computing system. Moreover, a number of new security and privacy problems arise, such as threats to user’s privacy due to the realistic possibility of having honest-but-curious cloud providers. In this scenario, we propose an authentication scheme supporting full anonymity of users and unlinkability of service requests. This is done by combining a multi-party cryptographic protocol with the use of a cooperative P2P-based approach to access services in the cloud. As the solution is thought to be adopted in e-government scenarios, accountability of user accesses is always preserved, to prevent misuse and illegal actions of users.

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Acknowledgment

This work has been partially supported by the TENACE PRIN Project (n. 20103P34XC) funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research and by the Program “Programma Operativo Nazionale Ricerca e Competitività” 2007–2013, Distretto Tecnologico CyberSecurity funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research.

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    F. Buccafurri, G. Lax, S. Nicolazzo & A. Nocera

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    Costas Lambrinoudakis

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Buccafurri, F., Lax, G., Nicolazzo, S., Nocera, A. (2015). Accountability-Preserving Anonymous Delivery of Cloud Services. In: Fischer-Hübner, S., Lambrinoudakis, C., López, J. (eds) Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business. TrustBus 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9264. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22906-5_10

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