With cloud computing technology it is realized that data can be outsource and such data can also be shared among users of cloud. However, the data outsourced to cloud might be subjected to integrity problems due to the problems in the underlying hardware or software errors. Human errors also may contribute to the integrity problems. Many techniques came into existence in order to ensure data integrity. Most of the techniques have some sort of auditing. Public auditing schemes meant for data integrity of shared data might disclose confidential information. To overcome this problem, recently, Wang et al. proposed a novel approach that supports public auditing and also do not disclose confidential information. They exploited ring signatures that are used to compute verification metadata on the fly in order to audit the correctness of shared data. The public verifiers do not know the identity of the signer. It does mean that the verifier can verify data without knowing the identity of the signer. However, this scheme does not consider the freshness of data which is very important in cloud services. Obtaining latest copy of data is very important to avoid stale data access in cloud. Towards this end, in this paper, we proposed an algorithm for ensuring freshness of the data while retrieving the outsourced data in multi-user environment. Our empirical results revealed that the proposed algorithm is efficient.
DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.15065
