RT Journal Article
T1 Security Architecture and Protocol for Trust Verifications Regarding the Integrity of Files Stored in Cloud Services
A1 Pinheiro, Alexandre
A1 Dias Canedo, Edna
A1 de Sousa Junior, Rafael
A1 de Oliveira Albuquerque, Robson
A1 García Villalba, Luis Javier
A1 Kim, Tai-Hoon
AB Cloud computing is considered an interesting paradigm due to its scalability, availability and virtually unlimited storage capacity. However, it is challenging to organize a cloud storage service (CSS) that is safe from the client point-of-view and to implement this CSS in public clouds since it is not advisable to blindly consider this configuration as fully trustworthy. Ideally, owners of large amounts of data should trust their data to be in the cloud for a long period of time, without the burden of keeping copies of the original data, nor of accessing the whole content for verifications regarding data preservation. Due to these requirements, integrity, availability, privacy and trust are still challenging issues for the adoption of cloud storage services, especially when losing or leaking information can bring significant damage, be it legal or business-related. With such concerns in mind, this paper proposes an architecture for periodically monitoring both the information stored in the cloud and the service provider behavior. The architecture operates with a proposed protocol based on trust and encryption concepts to ensure cloud data integrity without compromising confidentiality and without overloading storage services. Extensive tests and simulations of the proposed architecture and protocol validate their functional behavior and performance.
PB MDPI
SN 1424-8220
YR 2018
FD 2018-03-02
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12694
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/12694
LA spa
DS Docta Complutense
RD 1 ene 2026