Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6884880 | Journal of Network and Computer Applications | 2018 | 30 Pages |
Abstract
With the rapid development of cloud storage, more and more data owners store their data on the remote cloud, that can reduce data owners' overhead because the cloud server maintaining the data for them, e.g., storing, updating and deletion. However, that leads to data deletion becomes a security challenge because the cloud server may not delete the data honestly for financial incentives. Recently, plenty of research works have been done on secure data deletion. However, most of the existing methods can be summarized with the same protocol essentially, which called “one-bit-return” protocol: the storage server deletes the data and returns a one-bit result. The data owner has to believe the returned result because he cannot verify it. In this paper, we propose a novel blockchain-based data deletion scheme, which can make the deletion operation more transparent. In our scheme, the data owner can verify the deletion result no matter how malevolently the cloud server behaves. Besides, with the application of blockchain, the proposed scheme can achieve public verification without any trusted third party.
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Authors
Changsong Yang, Xiaofeng Chen, Yang Xiang,