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Trust-Oriented Protocol for Continuous Monitoring of Stored Files in Cloud

Authors:
Alexandre Pinheiro
Edna Dias Canedo
Rafael Timóteo de Sousa Júnior
Robson de Oliveira Albuquerque

Keywords: protocol; trust; cloud data storage; integrity; data monitoring.

Abstract:
The speed, availability, scalability and low cost are main attractive of cloud services. However, building safe storage services from a customer point of view, mainly when this service is being hosted on public cloud infrastructure, whose service providers are not fully trustworthy, it is an obstacle to be overcame. There are common situations, where owners of large data amount need to store them for a long time, but they will not necessarily need to access them. This time can vary from few years to decades, in accordance with applicable laws of each country. In these cases, important aspects as integrity, availability and privacy must be considered when making decision on adoption of cloud services. Considering the damage whose information loss or its leakage may cause, this paper presents a protocol, which through an independent checker, allows a periodic monitoring on stored files in cloud using trust and cryptography concepts to ensure data integrity. Moreover, this paper also presents a protocol reference implementation and the performed tests results.

Pages: 295 to 301

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: August 21, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-498-5

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from August 21, 2016 to August 25, 2016