Title
Entangled Cloud Storage.
Abstract
Entangled cloud storage (Aspnes et¿al., ESORICS 2004) enables a set of clients to \"entangle\" their files into a single clew to be stored by a (potentially malicious) cloud provider. The entanglement makes it impossible to modify or delete significant part of the clew without affecting all files encoded in the clew. A clew keeps the files in it private but still lets each client recover his own data by interacting with the cloud provider; no cooperation from other clients is needed. At the same time, the cloud provider is discouraged from altering or overwriting any significant part of the clew as this will imply that none of the clients can recover their files.We put forward the first simulation-based security definition for entangled cloud storage, in the framework of universal composability (Canetti, 2001). We then construct a protocol satisfying our security definition, relying on an entangled encoding scheme based on privacy-preserving polynomial interpolation; entangled encodings were originally proposed by Aspnes et¿al. as useful tools for the purpose of data entanglement. As a contribution of independent interest we revisit the security notions for entangled encodings, putting forward stronger definitions than previous work (that for instance did not consider collusion between clients and the cloud provider).Protocols for entangled cloud storage find application in the cloud setting, where clients store their files on a remote server and need to be ensured that the cloud provider will not modify or delete their data illegitimately. Current solutions, e.g.,¿based on Provable Data Possession and Proof of Retrievability, require the server to be challenged regularly to provide evidence that the clients' files are stored at a given time. Entangled cloud storage provides an alternative approach where any single client operates implicitly on behalf of all others, i.e.,¿as long as one client's files are intact, the entire remote database continues to be safe and unblemished. We model simulation-based security for data entanglement in the cloud.We introduce stronger security notions for entangled encoding schemes.We give a protocol for entangled storage satisfying our simulation-based definition.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.future.2016.01.008
Future Generation Comp. Syst.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Cloud storage,Data entanglement,Simulation-based security,Universal composability
Journal
62
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0167-739X
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Giuseppe Ateniese14380254.66
Özgür Dagdelen222317.06
Ivan Damgård35851431.52
Daniele Venturi421026.43