Blockchain-Based Private Provable Data Possession

Remote data secure storage is of crucial importance in cloud computing. In order to check remote data integrity, an important paradigm PDP (i.e., provable data possession) is proposed. All the existing PDP schemes make use of RSA or bilinear pairings. One large file has to be divided into a great many of blocks. For example, 1T (Terabit) file has to be divided into 1.0737 ×10 ⁹ blocks (RSA where the length of the index is 1024 bits) or 6.8719 ×10 ⁹ blocks (bilinear pairings where the order of the elliptic curve is 160 bits). The huge computation cost and communication cost incurs the inefficient PDP implementation. In other words, they are not practical. In order to solve the problem, we propose a new PDP model: blockchain-based private PDP. The new concept makes use of blockchain which is the core of cryptocurrency. For the new concept, the paper formalizes its system model and security model. Then, a concrete blockchain-based private PDP scheme is designed by making use of blockchain and RSA. The proposed blockchain-based private PDP scheme is provably secure. At the same time, we also analyze its performance from two parts: theory analysis and implementation prototype. Our analysis shows that the proposed PDP scheme is secure, efficient and practical.