Survey on public auditability to ensure data integrity in cloud storage

Abstract

Cloud storage relieves the user from the local management of software and hardware by enabling high quality on demand storage services to store their data in remote locations. Storing the data in remote locations not only reduces the management overheads but also eliminates the user’s physical control over data storage and data security. The loss of physical control over data brings out various security issues such as data loss, tampering of data, data modification. The primary issue is to ensure the correctness of data stored in remote locations which can be resolved by enabling public auditing for cloud storage services. In public auditing, not only the user but anyone can verify the data correctness. The introduction of third-party auditor, who works on behalf of cloud user to verify data integrity helps to reduce user computation resources and cost. The key prerequisite for the public auditing protocol is to support dynamic data operations as data in cloud are dynamic in nature. Cloud is a multiuser environment, so the auditing protocol must scale well to handle multiple auditing processes simultaneously. This paper aims at an extensive survey which mainly outlines the requirements for cloud public auditability and compares varied public auditing protocols.

Keywords:

• Public auditing
• third-party auditor
• batch auditing
• data integrity