An Edge Cloud Data Integrity Protection Scheme Based on Blockchain

Abstract

The publicly accessible feature of edge servers leads to the threat of malicious access to the data stored on the server and a series of security problems such as the leakage of user data privacy and the destruction of integrity. Data custody causes the separation of user ownership and management rights and brings potential security risks of data theft and destruction. Among them, for the integrity of the data uploaded by the terminal, the current protection mechanism mostly verifies the identity of the visitor or encrypts the data, but the role of verification is mostly assumed by the server, and it is impossible to avoid the collusion of edge servers with malicious intruders. In this paper, a distributed virtual machine agent (VMA) is designed and implemented, an edge cloud data integrity monitoring framework is built, and the verification protocol based on blockchain is proposed, which achieves trusted verification without relying on a trusted third party. Also, a prototype system of edge cloud data integrity protection based on blockchain is constructed to prevent data corruption. The results of security proof and experimental verification show that the mechanism based on blockchain technology can defend against three attacks of cloud service providers, has superior computation, and reduces the storage costs to protect the integrity of user data.