Towards Privacy-assured and Lightweight On-chain Auditing of Decentralized Storage
2020 IEEE 40th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)(2020)
摘要
How to audit outsourced data in centralized storage like cloud is well-studied, but it is largely under-explored for the rising decentralized storage network (DSN) that bodes well for a billion-dollar market. To realize DSN as a usable service in a fully decentralized manner, the blockchain comes in handy - to record and verify audit trails in forms of proof of storage, and based on that, to enforce fair payments with necessary dispute resolution. Leaving the audit trails on the blockchain offers transparency and fairness, yet it 1) sacrifices privacy, as they may leak information about the data under audit, and 2) overwhelms onchain resources, as they may be practically large in size and expensive to verify. Prior auditing designs in centralized settings are not directly applicable here. A handful of proposals targeting DSN cannot satisfactorily address these issues either. We present an auditing solution that addresses on-chain privacy and efficiency, from a synergy of homomorphic linear authenticators with polynomial commitments for succinct proofs, and the sigma protocol for provable privacy. The solution results in, per audit, 288-byte proof written to the blockchain, and constant verification cost. It can sustain long-term operation and easily scale to thousands of users on Ethereum.
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Decentralized Storage,Public Auditability,Blockchain enabled Auditing,Smart Contract,Lightweight Verification,Zero Knowledge
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