Optimal Spot-Checking Ratio for Probabilistic Attacks in Remote Data Checking

Remote data checking (RDC) is a scheme that allows clients to efficiently check the integrity of data stored at an untrusted server using spot-checking. Efforts have been consistently devoted toward improving the efficiency of such RDC schemes because they involve some overhead. In this letter, it is assumed that a probabilistic attack model is adopted, in which an adversary corrupts exposed blocks in the network with a certain probability. An optimal spot-checking ratio that simultaneously guarantees the robustness of the scheme and minimizes the overhead is obtained.