HDeFC: Hierarchical Secure Fuzzy Deduplication Based on Fog Computing

Secure deduplication not only optimizes cloud storage but also prevents data leakage. However, traditional schemes are with high computation and communication costs to deal with large-scale multimedia data. To address this problem, we propose a fog computing-based fuzzy deduplication (HDeFC), a two-stage privacy-preserving deduplication protocol. Our approach prevents guessing attacks and single point of failure, besides that also implements noninteractive Proof of Ownership and label consistency verification. In addition, we also achieve the access permission for only legitimate users. Our performance evaluation shows that the hierarchical setting is efficient in deduplication.