PoI: Proof of Identity and PoDI: Proof of Data Integrity for Secure Data Deduplication in the Cloud

Abstract

Cloud storage is the decisive service for the organization, hospitals etc., for storing huge amount of data within their budget. But, Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) are facing the major problem of duplicate and redundant data being accumulated by Data Owners (DO) in the cloud storages. Deduplication is one of the major technique to solve the above problem but faces the major drawback in the form of security flaws. Secure deduplication is a very promising solution proposed by the researchers for addressing this issue. In this paper, problems like revocation of DOs, brute force attack and duplicate faking attack are addressed as part of secure deduplication. The proposed approach is having two protocols, namely, Proof of Identity (PoI) and Proof of Data Integrity (PoDI) which solves the above-mentioned problems. The proposed approach improves the efficiency of secure deduplication, enhances data privacy and addresses Data Owner (DO) revocation problem.