Merkle-Tree-Based Verifiable Public Data Auditing for Cloud Object Storage Using Smart Contracts

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Siri Reddy Tadi, K. Gangadhara Rao, M. Venu Gopalachari, C. Chetann Reddy, Jaswanth Bhimireddy)

Summary by Cyber Security News28 Oct 2026, 05:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.36001v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Owners of data in cloud object storage cannot directly check whether the provider still keeps every object unchanged. Existing research mostly checks blocks inside files or relies on third-party auditors, and less attention has been given to checking each object against a public blockchain reference while measuring the cost.

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