Paper 2010/214
How to Tell if Your Cloud Files Are Vulnerable to Drive Crashes
Kevin D. Bowers, Marten van Dijk, Ari Juels, Alina Oprea, and Ronald L. Rivest
Abstract
This paper presents a new challenge---verifying that a remote server is storing a file in a fault-tolerant manner, i.e., such that it can survive hard-drive failures. We describe an approach called the Remote Assessment of Fault Tolerance (RAFT). The key technique in a RAFT is to measure the time taken for a server to respond to a read request for a collection of file blocks. The larger the number of hard drives across which a file is distributed, the faster the read-request response. Erasure codes also play an important role in our solution. We describe a theoretical framework for RAFTs and show experimentally that RAFTs can work in practice.
Note: Updated to include testing performed against the Mozy online backup service.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
- Keywords
- applicationserasure codesstorage
- Contact author(s)
- ajuels @ rsa com
- History
- 2011-05-13: last of 6 revisions
- 2010-04-19: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2010/214
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2010/214,
author = {Kevin D. Bowers and Marten van Dijk and Ari Juels and Alina Oprea and Ronald L. Rivest},
title = {How to Tell if Your Cloud Files Are Vulnerable to Drive Crashes},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2010/214},
year = {2010},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/214}
}
