A Blockchain-Based Multi-Cloud Storage Data Consistency Verification Scheme

Abstract

Users worldwide widely use cloud storage because of its efficiency, convenience, and high availability. Multi-cloud storage is usually selected to ensure the high availability of data. Unfortunately, when data is migrated and replicated between multi-cloud data centers, it is not easy to guarantee data con-sistency. This paper proposes an efficient, secure, and new data consistency verification scheme using blockchain technology. In order to reduce the computation and communication overhead in the verification process, our scheme uses encrypted tags to build Merkle hash tree to generate unique and lightweight verification proofs and does not use third-party auditors. The final theoretical and experimental analysis shows that our scheme has higher security and a faster verification process in multi-cloud storage.