Progress in cloud computing makes group data sharing in outsourced storage a reality.People join in group and share data with each other,making team work more convenient.This new application scenario also faces data s...Progress in cloud computing makes group data sharing in outsourced storage a reality.People join in group and share data with each other,making team work more convenient.This new application scenario also faces data security threats,even more complex.When a user quit its group,remaining data block signatures must be re-signed to ensure security.Some researchers noticed this problem and proposed a few works to relieve computing overhead on user side.However,considering the privacy and security need of group auditing,there still lacks a comprehensive solution to implement secure group user revocation,supporting identity privacy preserving and collusion attack resistance.Aiming at this target,we construct a concrete scheme based on ring signature and smart contracts.We introduce linkable ring signature to build a kind of novel meta data for integrity proof enabling anonymous verification.And the new meta data supports secure revocation.Meanwhile,smart contracts are using for resisting possible collusion attack and malicious re-signing computation.Under the combined effectiveness of both signature method and blockchain smart contracts,our proposal supports reliable user revocation and signature re-signing,without revealing any user identity in the whole process.Security and performance analysis compared with previous works prove that the proposed scheme is feasible and efficient.展开更多
Cloud storage has been widely used to team work or cooperation devel-opment.Data owners set up groups,generating and uploading their data to cloud storage,while other users in the groups download and make use of it,wh...Cloud storage has been widely used to team work or cooperation devel-opment.Data owners set up groups,generating and uploading their data to cloud storage,while other users in the groups download and make use of it,which is called group data sharing.As all kinds of cloud service,data group sharing also suffers from hardware/software failures and human errors.Provable Data Posses-sion(PDP)schemes are proposed to check the integrity of data stored in cloud without downloading.However,there are still some unmet needs lying in auditing group shared data.Researchers propose four issues necessary for a secure group shared data auditing:public verification,identity privacy,collusion attack resis-tance and traceability.However,none of the published work has succeeded in achieving all of these properties so far.In this paper,we propose a novel block-chain-based ring signature PDP scheme for group shared data,with an instance deployed on a cloud server.We design a linkable ring signature method called Linkable Homomorphic Authenticable Ring Signature(LHARS)to implement public anonymous auditing for group data.We also build smart contracts to resist collusion attack in group auditing.The security analysis and performance evalua-tion prove that our scheme is both secure and efficient.展开更多
基金The work is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2018YFC1604002)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.U1836204,No.U1936208,No.U1936216,No.62002197).
文摘Progress in cloud computing makes group data sharing in outsourced storage a reality.People join in group and share data with each other,making team work more convenient.This new application scenario also faces data security threats,even more complex.When a user quit its group,remaining data block signatures must be re-signed to ensure security.Some researchers noticed this problem and proposed a few works to relieve computing overhead on user side.However,considering the privacy and security need of group auditing,there still lacks a comprehensive solution to implement secure group user revocation,supporting identity privacy preserving and collusion attack resistance.Aiming at this target,we construct a concrete scheme based on ring signature and smart contracts.We introduce linkable ring signature to build a kind of novel meta data for integrity proof enabling anonymous verification.And the new meta data supports secure revocation.Meanwhile,smart contracts are using for resisting possible collusion attack and malicious re-signing computation.Under the combined effectiveness of both signature method and blockchain smart contracts,our proposal supports reliable user revocation and signature re-signing,without revealing any user identity in the whole process.Security and performance analysis compared with previous works prove that the proposed scheme is feasible and efficient.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2018YFC1604002)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.U1836204,No.U1936208,No.U1936216,No.62002197).
文摘Cloud storage has been widely used to team work or cooperation devel-opment.Data owners set up groups,generating and uploading their data to cloud storage,while other users in the groups download and make use of it,which is called group data sharing.As all kinds of cloud service,data group sharing also suffers from hardware/software failures and human errors.Provable Data Posses-sion(PDP)schemes are proposed to check the integrity of data stored in cloud without downloading.However,there are still some unmet needs lying in auditing group shared data.Researchers propose four issues necessary for a secure group shared data auditing:public verification,identity privacy,collusion attack resis-tance and traceability.However,none of the published work has succeeded in achieving all of these properties so far.In this paper,we propose a novel block-chain-based ring signature PDP scheme for group shared data,with an instance deployed on a cloud server.We design a linkable ring signature method called Linkable Homomorphic Authenticable Ring Signature(LHARS)to implement public anonymous auditing for group data.We also build smart contracts to resist collusion attack in group auditing.The security analysis and performance evalua-tion prove that our scheme is both secure and efficient.
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61372103)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.BK20201265)Foundation of the National Engineering Research Center of Classified Protection and Safeguard Technology for Cybersecurity(No.C21640-2).
