CLOUDCOM 2013, 5th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, 2-5 December 2013, Bristol, UK
With the continuous and exponential increase of the number of users and the size of their data, data deduplication becomes more and more a necessity for cloud storage providers. By
storing a unique copy of duplicate data, cloud providers greatly reduce their storage and data transfer costs. The advantages of deduplication unfortunately come with a high cost in terms of new security and privacy challenges. We propose ClouDedup, a secure and efficient storage service which assures block-level deduplication and data confidentiality at the same time. Although based on convergent encryption, ClouDedup remains secure thanks to the definition of a component that implements an additional encryption operation and an access control mechanism. Furthermore, as the requirement for deduplication at block-level raises an issue with respect to key management, we suggest to include a new component in order to implement the key management for each block together with the actual deduplication operation. We show that the overhead introduced by these new components is minimal and does not impact the overall storage and computational costs.
Type:
Conference
City:
Bristol
Date:
2013-12-02
Department:
Digital Security
Eurecom Ref:
4136
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