BCDAS: Blockchain-assisted classifiable data auditing scheme with dynamic operations

Abstract

As cloud computing gains widespread adoption, cloud storage services have become the primary means of data management for users. Authenticated data structures (ADS) are a novel computational model designed to address data authentication problems in distributed environments. With the growing demand for robust data security, vulnerability detection in storage systems has become a critical area of focus to ensure resilience against potential threats. However, traditional ADS, while ensuring consistency between cloud data and source data, have limitations in handling dynamic data operations on multiple types of files, storage space expansion, and single-point failure issues. To tackle these issues, this paper proposes a blockchain-assisted classifiable data auditing scheme with dynamic operations. First, trapdoor hash functions are used to construct a binary tree. During dynamic data operations, the impact of hash updates is confined to a subset of nodes, ensuring global stability and reducing computational resource consumption. Second, innovative data structures and verification mechanisms are introduced, reducing the risk of single-point failures by decentralizing the dependency on verification paths. Finally, data types are confirmed based on data identifiers, and corresponding path information is recorded, enabling efficient and rapid dynamic operations on specific types of files within multi-source data. Both security analysis and performance assessment demonstrate that BCDAS conducts data auditing with reliability and efficiency.