Title
Fast Proof Generation for Verifying Cloud Search
Abstract
As cloud computing has become prominent, the need for searching cloud data has grown increasingly urgent. However, cloud search may be incorrect due to errors of cloud providers and attacks from other malicious tenants. Previous work on verifiable computing returns results with probabilistically checkable proofs, which targets at different applications other than search and requires a large computation overhead. We propose a hybrid approach for generating proofs of cloud search results. Specifically, we model search indices as sets and search operations as set intersections, and build proofs based on RSA accumulators and aggregated membership and no membership witnesses. Because generating witnesses for large sets is computationally expensive, we employ interval-based witnesses for fast proof generation. To reduce proof size, our hybrid method uses Bloom filters when set difference is large. Evaluation on real datasets shows that our hybrid approach generates proofs in an average of 0.197s, up to 83.2% faster than previous work with a smaller proof size. Experiments also show our approach allows incremental updates with constant cost.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/IPDPS.2015.11
International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
Keywords
Field
DocType
Verifiable computing, RSA accumulator, Bloom filter
Verifiable computing,Bloom filter,Computer science,Parallel computing,Theoretical computer science,Mathematical proof,Complement (set theory),Computation,Cloud computing,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1530-2075
0
0.34
References 
Authors
32
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jingyu Zhou110.70
Jiannong Cao25226425.12
Bin Yao336532.71
Minyi Guo43969332.25