Paper 2011/304
Auditing the Auditor: Secure Delegation of Auditing Operation over Cloud Storage
Jia XU
Abstract
In cloud storage service, users upload their data together with authentication information to cloud storage server. To ensure the availability and integrity of users' data stored in the cloud storage, users need to verify the cloud storage remotely and periodically, with the help of the pre-stored authentication information and without storing a local copy of the data or retrieving back the data during verification. Public verification enables a third party auditor (TPA), on the behalf of the data owner, to verify the integrity of cloud storage with the data owner's public key. In this paper, we propose a method that allows the data owner to delegate the auditing task to a potentially untrusted third party auditor in a secure manner: (1) The data owner can verify whether the TPA has indeed performed the specified audit task; (2) The data owner can verify whether the TPA did the audit task at the right time specified by the data owner; (3) The confidentiality of the data is protected against the TPA. Our method also enables a TPA to re-outsource the audit task.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
- Keywords
- AuthenticationProof of RetrievabilitySecure Cloud StorageSecure Delegation of Auditing
- Contact author(s)
- jiaxu2001 @ gmail com
- History
- 2011-06-08: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2011/304
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2011/304,
author = {Jia XU},
title = {Auditing the Auditor: Secure Delegation of Auditing Operation over Cloud Storage},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2011/304},
year = {2011},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/304}
}
