Secure regenerating codes for hybrid cloud storage systems

We study the scenario of hybrid cloud storage where the client utilizes both an off-site and a local storage. The former is a distributed storage system (DSS) with the presence of an eavesdropper that has access to the content stored in and downloaded to some subset of nodes. The latter (local) storage is utilized to store a secret key to secure the stored file against the eavesdropper. We introduce two possibilities to utilize local storage (secret key) in enhancing the DSS. First, the key can be used to increase the maximum file size stored in the DSS. We propose an upper bound for this scenario and show constructions achieving it. Second, the key can be used to decrease the number of contacted nodes required to reconstruct the file at the client. We extend the product matrix (PM) framework and construct codes that enables efficient data access. Our analysis includes both minimum repair bandwidth regenerating (MBR) and minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes.