Research Article

Improved Lightweight Cloud Storage Auditing Protocol for Shared Medical Data

Table 1

Symbols.

SymbolsDescription

Two multiplicative cyclic groups with a large prime order
A secure hash function such that
A secure hash function such that
A prime field with nonzero elements
The generator of group
A shared data file with blocks and slices.
The blind data block.
The secret seed (input key) of a pseudo-random function
A pseudo-random function such that
The number of random values is consistent with the number of slices of the data block.
The blinding factor corresponding to the -th data block such that
’s private key used to generate data authentication label
The authentication label for the -th blind data block
The authentication label for the -th data block
The number of TPM
The identity of the group manager