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Data Auditing for the Internet of Things Environments Leveraging Smart Contract

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Frontiers in Cyber Security (FCS 2020)

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Cloud storage has been proposed to be integrated with the Internet of Things (IoT) to provide more intelligent and powerful services through sharing and analyzing the IoT data. However, how to assure the integrity of IoT data outsourced in the cloud is still an open challenge. A number of auditing schemes have been proposed in recent years, but most of them introduce a credible auditor to perform auditing work instead of the user. However, the absolutely credible auditor is an ideal hypothesis. Thus, we propose a new public auditing scheme, which introduces the smart contract to replace the auditor to perform the auditing task. Since the essence of smart contracts is a piece of public code posted on the blockchain, our scheme can solve the credit problem of the auditor compared with the traditional public auditing model. The proposed scheme streamlines the auditing processes to reduce the computational overheads of the user and cloud. The security of the proposed scheme is rigorously proved. In addition, the results of the performance evaluation show that our scheme can effectively realize the security auditing, and outperforms the existing schemes in computational overheads.

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This work was supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. U1405254, Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China under Grant No. 2018J01093, Open Project Program of Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics under Grant No. 2018WNLOKF009, The Scientific Research Funds of Huaqiao University (No. 605-50Y19028), and Subsidized Project for Postgraduates’ Innovative Fund in Scientific Research of Huaqiao University.

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    Fang Peng, Hui Tian & Hanyu Quan

  2. Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Fang Peng & Hui Tian

  3. Network Technology Center, National Huaqiao University, Xiamen, 361021, China

    Jing Lu

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Peng, F., Tian, H., Quan, H., Lu, J. (2020). Data Auditing for the Internet of Things Environments Leveraging Smart Contract. In: Xu, G., Liang, K., Su, C. (eds) Frontiers in Cyber Security. FCS 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1286. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9739-8_12

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