Identity-based proxy-oriented outsourcing with public auditing in cloud-based medical cyber-physical systems

Cloud-based medical cyber-physical system (MCPS) relies on cloud computing to provide powerful data storage and computing services. Based on the vital outsourced medical data, doctors can perform precise medical diagnosis for patients, thus the integrity verification of medical data has become increasingly important. In this paper, we propose an identity-based proxy-oriented outsourcing with public auditing scheme in cloud-based MCPS using elliptic curve cryptography. Our scheme enables a patient to authorize the proxy to generate and upload the signatures of medical data and corresponding encrypted medical data to cloud-based MCPS. Any third party auditor (TPA) can audit the medical data efficiently, without retrieving the entire medical data set. We provide the security proof of the proposed scheme, including the storage correctness guarantee and proxy-oriented privacy-preserving property. Moreover, our scheme is designed on identity-based systems, which can avoid complex certificates management. The efficiency comparison shows that our scheme is much more light-weight, and more suitable in cloud-based MCPS. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.