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An auditing scheme is a good way to prove owner’s data outsourced to the cloud are kept intact, and a scheme capable of giving public verifiability service is a good option that some researchers have managed to build for the last few years. However, in a public auditing scheme everybody does verification of data and a possibility of leaking some secrete information to the public verifiers is an issue that data owners are unhappywith this scenario. For example, the data owner does not want anybody else to know he has the data stored in the cloud server. Motivated by the issue of privacy associated with public auditing system, we proposed a designated verifier auditing (DVA) scheme based on Steinfeld et al.’s universal designated verifier (DV) signature scheme. Our DVA scheme authorizes a third party auditor with private verification capability. It provides private verification because the scheme involves private key of the verifier. Moreover, we present the batch auditing scheme to improve auditing efficiency. Through rigorous security analysis we showed that our scheme is provably secure in the random oraclemodel assuming that the computational Diffie-Hellman (CDH) problem is hard over the group of bilinear maps.
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Solomon Guadie Worku is a doctorial student at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). He received his MS degree in Mathematics from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia in 2003 and his BE degree inMathematics from Kotebe College of Teacher Education, Ethiopia in 1998. His research interests include information security, cryptography, and cloud computing security.
Chunxiang Xu received her BS, MS, and PhD degrees at Xidian University, China in 1985, 1988, and 2004 respectively, China. She is currently engaged in information security, cloud computing security, and cryptography as a professor at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC).
Jining Zhao received his BS degree in Information and Computing Science at Henan Normal University in 2005, China. He is an MS degree candidate in Information Security at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). His research interests include cloud computing security, network security, and cryptography.
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Worku, S.G., Xu, C. & Zhao, J. Cloud data auditing with designated verifier. Front. Comput. Sci. 8, 503–512 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-013-3138-7
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