Secure RAID schemes from EVENODD and STAR codes

Abstract

We study secure RAID, i.e., low-complexity schemes to store information in a distributed manner that is resilient to node failures and resistant to node eavesdropping. We describe a technique to shorten the secure EVENODD scheme in [6], which can optimally tolerate 2 node failures and 2 eavesdropping nodes. The shortening technique allows us to obtain secure EVENODD schemes of arbitrary lengths, which is important for practical application. We also construct a new secure RAID scheme from the STAR code. The scheme can tolerate 3 node failures and 3 eavesdropping nodes with optimal encoding/decoding and random access complexity.

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