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Enhanced GeoProof: improved geographic assurance for data in the cloud

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The geographic location of cloud data storage centres is an important issue for many organisations and individuals due to various regulations that require data and operations to reside in specific geographic locations. Thus, cloud users may want to be sure that their stored data have not been relocated into unknown geographic regions that may compromise the security of their stored data. Albeshri et al. (2012) combined proof of storage (POS) protocols with distance-bounding protocols to address this problem. However, their scheme involves unnecessary delay when utilising typical POS schemes due to computational overhead at the server side. The aim of this paper is to improve the basic GeoProof protocol by reducing the computation overhead at the server side. We show how this can maintain the same level of security while achieving more accurate geographic assurance.

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  1. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

    Aiiad Albeshri & Juan González Nieto

  2. Faculty of Computing and IT, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    Aiiad Albeshri

  3. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Colin Boyd

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Albeshri, A., Boyd , C. & Nieto, J.G. Enhanced GeoProof: improved geographic assurance for data in the cloud. Int. J. Inf. Secur. 13, 191–198 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-013-0217-6

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