A blockchain-based framework for data sharing with fine-grained access control in decentralized storage systems
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In traditional cloud storage systems, attribute-based encryption (ABE) is regarded as an important technology for solving the problem of data privacy and fine-grained access control. However, in all ABE schemes, the private key generator has the ability to decrypt all data stored in the cloud server, which may bring serious problems such as key abuse and privacy data leakage. Meanwhile, the traditional cloud storage model runs in a centralized storage manner, so single point of failure may leads to the collapse of system. With the development of blockchain technology, decentralized storage mode has entered the public view. The decentralized storage approach can solve the problem of single point of failure in traditional cloud storage systems and enjoy a number of advantages over centralized storage, such as low price and high throughput. In this paper, we study the data storage and sharing scheme for decentralized storage systems and propose a framework that combines the decentralized storage system interplanetary file system, the Ethereum blockchain, and ABE technology. In this framework, the data owner has the ability to distribute secret key for data users and encrypt shared data by specifying access policy, and the scheme achieves fine-grained access control over data. At the same time, based on smart contract on the Ethereum blockchain, the keyword search function on the cipher text of the decentralized storage systems is implemented, which solves the problem that the cloud server may not return all of the results searched or return wrong results in the traditional cloud storage systems. Finally, we simulated the scheme in the Linux system and the Ethereum official test network Rinkeby, and the experimental results show that our scheme is feasible.
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- Authors
- Wang, S., Zhang, Y., & Zhang, Y.
- Affiliations
- Xi'an University of Technology (CN)
- Venue
- IEEE Access
- Published
- 2018
- Volume
- 6
- Pages
- 38437-38450
- ISSN
- 2169-3536 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2810011639
- Cited by
- 627
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 25 · 2025: 58 · 2024: 78 · 2023: 90 · 2022: 109 · 2021: 115 · 2020: 97 · 2019: 53 · 2018: 2
- FWCI
- 107.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- IEEE Access (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (61572019, 61173192)
- Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (2016JZ001)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Cloud Data Security Solutions
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Cryptography and Data Security
- Keywords
- blockchain, decentralized storage, attribute-based encryption, fine-grained access control, data sharing, IPFS, Ethereum smart contracts, cloud storage security, key distribution, data privacy
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