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Attribute-based cloud storage with secure provenance over encrypted data
Future Generation Computer Systems
  • Hui CUI, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
  • Robert H. DENG, Singapore Management University
  • Yingjiu LI, Singapore Management University
Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
2-2018
Abstract

To securely and conveniently enjoy the benefits of cloud storage, it is desirable to design a cloud data storage system which protects data privacy from storage servers through encryption, allows fine-grained access control such that data providers can expressively specify who are eligible to access the encrypted data, enables dynamic user management such that the total number of data users is unbounded and user revocation can be carried out conveniently, supports data provider anonymity and traceability such that a data provider’s identity is not disclosed to data users in normal circumstances but can be traced by a trusted authority if necessary, and equally important, provides secure data provenance by presenting irrefutable evidence on who has created and modified the data in the cloud. However, most of the existing cloud storage systems with secure provenance either lack the expressiveness in access control or incur too much performance overhead or do not support dynamic user management. In this paper, we solve these problems by presenting an attribute-based cloud storage system with secure provenance. We first give a simple construction without achieving user revocation, and then extend it with an efficient revocation mechanism to prevent revoked data users from accessing the newly encrypted data. Thereafter, we implement the algorithms in the proposed two constructions to evaluate their performance. Our experimental results show that the proposed systems are acceptable to be applied in practice.

Keywords
  • Cloud storage,
  • Secure provenance,
  • Access control,
  • Scalability,
  • Confidentiality,
  • Anonymity,
  • Traceability,
  • Revocation
Identifier
10.1016/j.future.2017.10.010
Publisher
Elsevier
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.10.010
Citation Information
Hui CUI, Robert H. DENG and Yingjiu LI. "Attribute-based cloud storage with secure provenance over encrypted data" Future Generation Computer Systems Vol. 79 Iss. 2 (2018) p. 461 - 472 ISSN: 0167-739X
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/robert-deng/176/