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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2021.01212111
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Secure and Efficient Proof of Ownership Scheme for Client-Side Deduplication in Cloud Environments

Author 1: Amer Al-Amer
Author 2: Osama Ouda

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 12 Issue 12, 2021.

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Abstract: Data deduplication is an effective mechanism that reduces the required storage space of cloud storage servers by avoiding storing several copies of the same data. In contrast with server-side deduplication, client-side deduplication can not only save storage space but also reduce network bandwidth. Client-side deduplication schemes, however, might suffer from serious security threats. For instance, an adversary can spoof the server and gain access to a file he/she does not possess by claiming that she/he owns it. In order to thwart such a threat, the concept of proof-of-ownership (PoW) has been introduced. The security of the existing PoW scheme cannot be assured without affecting the computational complexity of the client-side deduplication. This paper proposes a secure and efficient PoW scheme for client-side deduplication in cloud environments with minimal computational overhead. The proposed scheme utilizes convergent encryption to encrypt a sufficiently large block specified by the server to challenge the client that claims possession of the file requested to be uploaded. To ensure that the client owns the entire file contents, and hence resist collusion attacks, the server challenges the client by requesting him to split the file he asks to upload into fixed-sized blocks and then encrypting a randomly chosen block using a key formed from extracting one bit at a specified location in all other blocks. This ensures a significant reduction in the communication overhead between the server and client. Computational complexity analysis and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed PoW scheme outperforms state-of-the-art PoW techniques.

Keywords: Client-side deduplication; proof of ownership; con-vergent encryption; could storage services

Amer Al-Amer and Osama Ouda, “Secure and Efficient Proof of Ownership Scheme for Client-Side Deduplication in Cloud Environments” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 12(12), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.01212111

@article{Al-Amer2021,
title = {Secure and Efficient Proof of Ownership Scheme for Client-Side Deduplication in Cloud Environments},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2021.01212111},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.01212111},
year = {2021},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {12},
number = {12},
author = {Amer Al-Amer and Osama Ouda}
}



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