RAFR: remote assessment of file redundancy

  • Authors:
  • Sumanta Sarkar;Reihaneh Safavi-Naini;Liang Feng Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada;University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada;University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 international workshop on Security in cloud computing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Cloud storage services have been increasingly popular in recent years. To provide guarantee against possible drive failures and crashes, data must be stored with redundancy on multiple drives. In this paper, we propose Remote Assessment of File Redundancy (RAFR), with the goal of providing guarantee to users that the cloud has stored data in k + Ψ drives, for some Ψ n, k) MDS erasure code and stores it in n drives. The user can verify that at least k drives are holding the encoded data and so the data is recoverable. Our analysis shows that the value of Ψ is n -- k -- ω(log n).