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The key security management scheme of cloud storage based on blockchain and digital twins

Jie Huang, Jiangyi Yi

2024Journal of Cloud Computing Advances Systems and Applications12 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Abstract As a secure distributed ledger technology, blockchain has attracted widespread attention from academia and industry for its decentralization, immutability, and traceability characteristics. This paper proposes a cloud storage key security management scheme based on blockchain. To resist brute-force attacks launched by adversaries on ciphertexts, the scheme uses an oblivious pseudo-random function (OPRF) to generate randomized convergent keys and improve data confidentiality. Second, the scheme enhances the reliability of concurrent key management through a secret sharing mechanism, where convergent keys are split into key fragments and distributed on blockchain for storage. Even if a certain number of key fragments are lost or damaged, users can still recover complete key information through block transaction records. In addition, the scheme effectively supports file-level and block-level data security deduplication. Security analysis and experimental performance evaluation indicate that this scheme can ensure the security of keys and the confidentiality of data, and it has a low computational overhead for generating file-level encryption keys under this scheme. Even for a 100 MB file, the computational overhead required for generating encryption keys is less than 2 s, which improves computational efficiency.

Topics & Concepts

Computer scienceComputer securityKey managementCloud storageBlockchainEncryptionCloud computingKey (lock)TraceabilitySecret sharingBlock (permutation group theory)Distributed computingComputer networkCryptographyOperating systemGeometrySoftware engineeringMathematicsBlockchain Technology Applications and SecurityCloud Data Security SolutionsCryptography and Data Security