Efficient data integrity auditing for storage security in mobile health cloud

Cloud storage services can enable data owners to eliminate the need for the initial investment of expensive infrastructure setup and also minimize development and maintenance costs. Outsourcing the health data to e-health cloud storage server is very beneficial. Nonetheless, storing the health data on cloud servers also brings serious security challenges. In this paper, we propose a highly efficient data integrity auditing scheme for cloud storage for mobile health applications. The authentication tag for each data block generated by biosensor nodes is minimal in our scheme due to the use of hash operation. Moreover, in data integrity checking phase, message-locked encryption scheme is utilized to encrypt and transport the auditing information of the checked data blocks, which significantly reduces the required amount of calculation and communication resources. Compared with the conventional third party auditing schemes, the presented scheme speeds up the tag generation and tag checking process by more than one thousand times.