FastAD: an authenticated directory for billions of objects

  • Authors:
  • Paul T. Stanton;Benjamin McKeown;Randal Burns;Giuseppe Ateniese

  • Affiliations:
  • Johns Hopkins University;Johns Hopkins University;Johns Hopkins University;Johns Hopkins University

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We develop techniques that make authenticated directories efficient and scalable toward the goal of managing tens of billions of objects in a single directory. Internet storage services have already realized this scale: Amazon's S3 contained more than 52 billion objects as of April 2009 [1]. Our contributions include defining on-disk, block-oriented data structures and algorithms for authenticated directories that exceed memory capacity and optimizations that reduce the I/O required to insert and access entries in the directory.