TY  - EJOU
AU  - Lei, Haibo 
AU  - Wang, Xu An 
AU  - Liu, Wenhao 
AU  - Wu, Lingling 
AU  - Zhang, Chao 
AU  - Jiang, Weiwei 
AU  - Zou, Xiao 

TI  - An Improved Blockchain-Based Cloud Auditing Scheme Using Dynamic Aggregate Signatures
T2  - Computers, Materials \& Continua

PY  - 2026
VL  - 86
IS  - 2
SN  - 1546-2226

AB  - With the rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT), user data has experienced exponential growth, leading to increasing concerns about the security and integrity of data stored in the cloud. Traditional schemes relying on untrusted third-party auditors suffer from both security and efficiency issues, while existing decentralized blockchain-based auditing solutions still face shortcomings in correctness and security. This paper proposes an improved blockchain-based cloud auditing scheme, with the following core contributions: Identifying critical logical contradictions in the original scheme, thereby establishing the foundation for the correctness of cloud auditing; Designing an enhanced mechanism that integrates multiple hashing with dynamic aggregate signatures, binding encrypted blocks through bilinear pairings and BLS signatures, and improving the scheme by setting parameters based on the Computational Diffie-Hellman (CDH) problem, significantly strengthening data integrity protection and anti-forgery capabilities; Introducing a random challenge mechanism and dynamic parameter adjustment strategy, effectively resisting various attacks such as forgery, tampering, and deletion, significantly improving the detection probability of malicious Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), and significantly reducing the proof generation overhead for CSPs while maintaining the same computational cost for Data Owners. Theoretical analysis and performance evaluation experiments demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves significant improvements in both security and efficiency. Finally, the paper explores potential applications of the Enhanced Security Scheme in fields such as healthcare, drone swarms, and government office attendance systems, providing an effective approach for building secure, efficient, and decentralized cloud auditing systems.
KW  - Cloud auditing; cloud storage; blockchain; data integrity; BLS signatures

DO  - 10.32604/cmc.2025.070030