PPTPS: Building privacy-preserving auditable service with traceable timeliness for public cloud storage

PLoS One. 2022 Oct 28;17(10):e0276212. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0276212. eCollection 2022.

Abstract

Many works are designed to improve efficiency or enhance security and privacy of publicly-auditable cloud storage. However, building timeliness for cloud storage has not been well studied. Few works presented time-sensitive cloud storage and only focused on specific issues, such as the earliest creation time of files or resistance against a procrastinating auditor. Therefore, there leaves an absence of building traceable timeliness for publicly-auditable cloud storage. In this paper, we propose a solution PPTPS to build Privacy-Preserving auditable service with Traceable timeliness for Public cloud Storage. First, we use the security properties of the blockchain to provide a time-stamp for each phase. It enables the timeliness of cloud storage. Second, we construct efficient publicly-verifiable cloud storage. Third, a customized random mask solution is proposed to prevent privacy leakage during the auditing phase. Moreover, we formally proved the security of PPTPS. At last, experimental results demonstrate that PPTPS is economically sound and technically viable.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Blockchain*
  • Cloud Computing
  • Computer Security
  • Confidentiality
  • Privacy*
  • Records

Grants and funding

This study was supported by the project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants (61802270), Science and Technology Research Project of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission of China (KJQN202201602), Natural Science Foundation Project of CQ CSTC(cstc2021jcyj-msxmX0305), High-level Talent Program of Chongqing University of Education, Chongqing Big Data Engineering Laboratory for Children, Chongqing Electronics Engineering Technology Research Center for Interactive Learning, Chongqing University Innovation Research Group. Chongqing’s key discipline of electronic information of Chongqing University of Education. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.