Research Article

Improved Public Auditing System of Cloud Storage Based on BLS Signature

Table 1

Notations.

NotationsDescriptions

Unencrypted data blocks
Encrypted data blocks
Multiplicative cyclic group
Bilinear mapping
Secure hash function
Prime field
Generator of
System initialization parameter
User’s data file
User’s secret key
Name of data block
Public key of user
Challenged subset of
Authentication label for
Collection of
Number of challenged data blocks
, , Random values
, , , Intermediate parameter
Collection of authentication labels of multiusers
The size of an element of
The size of a label
The computational cost of a power on
The computational cost of a multiplication on
The computational cost of an add on
The computational cost of a bilinear mapping
The computational cost of a hash