Research Article

A Lightweight Identity-Based Cloud Storage Auditing Supporting Proxy Update and Workload-Based Payment

Table 1

Notations.

Notation Meaning

Multiplicative cyclic groups with prime order p

Two generators of group

A bilinear pairing map

A cryptographic hash function,

A cryptographic hash function,

The security parameter

The master private key

The user identity

The proxy identity

The cloud identity

The user ’s private key

The proxy ’s partial private key

The cloud ’s private key

The warrant

The warrant’s start time and end time

The time private key

The proxy private key

The file

The number of data blocks of file F

The i-th block of file F

The signature of data block

The signature set of data blocks

The upload number

The linear combination of data blocks

An aggregated data signature