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Efficient chameleon hashing-based privacy-preserving auditing in cloud storage

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Cloud storage is an important application service in cloud computing, it allows data users to store and access their files anytime, from anywhere and with any device. To ensure the security of the outsourced data, data user needs to periodically check data integrity. In some cases, the identity privacy of data user must be protected. However, in the existing preserving identity privacy protocols, data tag generation is mainly based on complex ring signature or group signature. It brings a heavy burden to data user. To ensure identity privacy of data user, in this paper we propose a novel identity privacy-preserving public auditing protocol by utilizing chameleon hash function. It can achieve the following properties: (1) the identity privacy of data user is preserved for cloud server; (2) the validity of the outsourced data is verified; (3) data privacy can be preserved for the auditor in auditing process; (4) computation cost to produce data tag is very low. Finally, we also show that our scheme is provably secure in the random oracle model, the security of the proposed scheme is related to the computational Diffie–Hellman problem and hash function problem.

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This work was supported by Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation (No: 4122024,4132056) and The importation and development of High-Caliber Talents project of Beijing municipal Institutions (CIT&TCD2013 04004).

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Zhang, J., Zhao, X. Efficient chameleon hashing-based privacy-preserving auditing in cloud storage. Cluster Comput 19, 47–56 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-015-0514-0

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