Paper 2017/105

A Secure and Fast Dispersal Storage Scheme Based on the Learning with Errors Problem

Ling Yang, Fuyang Fang, Xianhui Lu, Wen-Tao Zhu, Qiongxiao Wang, Shen Yan, and Shiran Pan

Abstract

Data confidentiality and availability are of primary concern in data storage. Dispersal storage schemes achieve these two security properties by transforming the data into multiple codewords and dispersing them across multiple storage servers. Existing schemes achieve confidentiality and availability by various cryptographic and coding algorithms, but only under the assumption that an adversary cannot obtain more than a certain number of codewords. Meanwhile existing schemes are designed for storing archives. In this paper, we propose a novel dispersal storage scheme based on the learning with errors problem, known as storage with errors (SWE). SWE can resist even more powerful adversaries. Besides, SWE favorably supports dynamic data operations that are both efficient and secure, which is more practical for cloud storage. Furthermore, SWE achieves security at relatively low computational overhead, but the same storage cost compared with the state of the art. We also develop a prototype to validate and evaluate SWE. Analysis and experiments show that with proper configurations, SWE outperforms existing schemes in encoding/decoding speed.

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Publication info
Published elsewhere. 12th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm'16)
Keywords
dispersal storagedata confidentialitydata availabilitydynamic data operationsthe learning with errors problem
Contact author(s)
yangling @ iie ac cn
History
2017-02-13: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2017/105
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2017/105,
      author = {Ling Yang and Fuyang Fang and Xianhui Lu and Wen-Tao Zhu and Qiongxiao Wang and Shen Yan and Shiran Pan},
      title = {A Secure and Fast Dispersal Storage Scheme Based on the Learning with Errors Problem},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2017/105},
      year = {2017},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/105}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/105}
}
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