A survey on blockchain-based integrity auditing for cloud data

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2022-10

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en

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13
591-603

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Digital Communications and Networks, Volume 8, issue 5

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With the rapid advancement of cloud computing, cloud storage services have developed rapidly. One issue that has attracted particular attention in such remote storage services is that cloud storage servers are not enough to reliably save and maintain data, which greatly affects users’ confidence in purchasing and consuming cloud storage services. Traditional data integrity auditing techniques for cloud data storage are centralized, which face huge security risks due to single-point-of-failure and vulnerabilities of central auditing servers. Blockchain technology offers a new approach to this problem. Many researchers have endeavored to employ the blockchain for data integrity auditing. Based on the search of relevant papers, we found that existing literature lacks a thorough survey of blockchain-based integrity auditing for cloud data. In this paper, we makes an in-depth survey on cloud data integrity auditing based on blockchain. Firstly, we cover essential basic knowledge of integrity auditing for cloud data and blockchain techniques. Then, we propose a series of requirements for evaluating existing Blockchain-based Data Integrity Auditing (BDIA) schemes. Furthermore, we provide a comprehensive review of existing BDIA schemes and evaluate them based on our proposed criteria. Finally, according to our completed review and analysis, we explore some open issues and suggest research directions are worthy of further efforts in the future.

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Funding Information: This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62072351 ; in part by the Academy of Finland under Grant 308087 , Grant 335262 , Grant 345072 , and Grant 350464 ; in part by the Open Project of Zhejiang Lab under Grant 2021PD0AB01 ; and in part by the 111 Project under Grant B16037 . Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications

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Blockchain, Cloud storage, Decentralization, Integrity auditing

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Han, H, Fei, S, Yan, Z & Zhou, X 2022, ' A survey on blockchain-based integrity auditing for cloud data ', Digital Communications and Networks, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 591-603 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcan.2022.04.036