Enabling Data Integrity Protection in Regenerating-Coding-Based Cloud Storage

To protect outsourced data in cloud storage against corruptions, enabling integrity protection, fault tolerance, and efficient recovery for cloud storage becomes critical. Regenerating codes provide fault tolerance by striping data across multiple servers, while using less repair traffic than traditional erasure codes during failure recovery. Therefore, we study the problem of remotely checking the integrity of regenerating-coded data against corruptions under a real-life cloud storage setting. We design and implement a practical data integrity protection (DIP) scheme for a specific regenerating code, while preserving the intrinsic properties of fault tolerance and repair traffic saving. Our DIP scheme is designed under a Byzantine adversarial model, and enables a client to feasibly verify the integrity of random subsets of outsourced data against general or malicious corruptions. It works under the simple assumption of thin-cloud storage and allows different parameters to be fine-tuned for the performance-security trade-off. We implement and evaluate the overhead of our DIP scheme in a real cloud storage test bed under different parameter choices. We demonstrate that remote integrity checking can be feasibly integrated into regenerating codes in practical deployment.