The use of cloud computing has increased rapidly in many organizations. Cloud computing
provides many benefits in terms of low cost and accessibility of data. Ensuring the security of …

We present BEAT, a set of practical Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) protocols for completely
asynchronous environments. BEAT is flexible, versatile, and extensible, consisting of five …

In cloud computing, data owners host their data on cloud servers and users (data
consumers) can access the data from cloud servers. Due to the data outsourcing, however …

The success of blockchains has sparked interest in large-scale deployments of Byzantine
fault tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols over wide area networks. A central feature of such …

The increasing popularity of cloud storage services has lead companies that handle critical
data to think about using these services for their storage needs. Medical record databases …

Storage outsourcing is a rising trend which prompts a number of interesting security issues,
many of which have been extensively investigated in the past. However, Provable Data …

We introduce HAIL (High-Availability and Integrity Layer), a distributed cryptographic system
that allows a set of servers to prove to a client that a stored file is intact and retrievable. HAIL …

As the world moves to digital storage for archival purposes, there is an increasing demand
for systems that can provide secure data storage in a cost-effective manner. By identifying …

Cloud computing is a promising computing model that enables convenient and on-demand
network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. The first offered cloud …

The emerging use of the Internet for remote storage and backup has led to the problem of
verifying that storage sites in a distributed system indeed store the data; this must often be …