Dynamic Certificateless Outsourced Data Auditing Mechanism Supporting Multi-Ownership Transfer via Blockchain Systems

Abstract

Data auditing contributes to checking the integrity of outsourced data, promoting the vigorous development of cloud storage services. In actual scenarios, such as migration of electronic medical records or data transfer of enterprise mergers and acquisitions, it always require data auditing to help clients with dynamic data migration and integrity checking. In this paper, we present an efficient dynamic certificateless outsourced data auditing mechanism supporting multi-ownership transfer (CDA-MOT), addressing the issue of key escrow and without needing complex certificate management. By integrating a certificateless multi-signature on the same data file into the construction of a homomorphic authenticator based on the Lagrange inverse Multinomial theorem, CDA-MOT not only achieves integrity verification but also enables clients to transfer ownership rights and responsibilities for multi-ownership data in collaboration with cloud servers. Utilizing blockchain systems to store necessary data conversion and update records, as well as smart contracts to fulfill auditing tasks, CDA-MOT owns the characteristics of openness, transparency, accountability, and decentralized public auditing. Besides, CDA-MOT could be further applied in the extension of dynamic update operations, even if outsourced data have been transferred. The security analysis and performance evaluation have demonstrated the feasibility of CDA-MOT in the secure deployment of cloud storage.