Enhanced encryption algorithm (EEA) for protecting users' credentials in public cloud

<span lang="EN-US">Cloud Computing is the ability to improve the utility or train new human resources without investing in new infrastructure, or add capabilities to existence without the latest software licensing. It expanded the capabilities of Information Technology (IT). From the past few years, cloud computing has developed from a good business concept in the best rising sectors of the IT industry. But more information on individuals and companies was put in the cloud, and concerns began to think about how secure the cloud environment was. Despite cloud surrounding structures, enterprise users still do not want to expand their business in the cloud. Security reduces the growth of cloud computing and continues to spread the market with complexity with data privacy and data protection. The security of cloud computing has constantly been an significant aspect of improved quality of service from cloud service providers. Data storage in the cloud has a problem related to data security. However, cloud computing construct many new security challenges which have not been well examine. In order to ensure that the user's data in the cloud is secure, we have proposed an effective mechanism with a distinctive feature of data integrity and privacy. This paper focusing on problems relating to the cloud data storage techniques and security in virtual environment. We recommend a method for providing data storage and security in cloud using public key Cryptosystem, which uses the concept of the modified RSA algorithm to provide better security for the data stored in the cloud. </span>

It has been found that the Cloud computing facilities have been used by users of various categories to meet their flexible computing needs which include Processing Powers, Storages, Servers, etc., and among these needs, Public Cloud storage has been used for storing huge data files of different formats and different sizes in Cloud. Because of data security concerns in Cloud, symmetric algorithms have been preferred for encryption and decryption of these data files. Because of limited Internet speed, we must have provision to identify fast and efficient symmetric algorithms for Cloud storages. In the literature survey, we have not found any framework to investigate the efficiency of symmetric algorithms in securing and storing data in Cloud based on various parameters like Encryption Time, Decryption Time, and Throughput, etc.

This paper focuses on studying cloud storage data protection model and implementing encrypted storage of user data in double-key form. User data are encrypted with symmetric encryption algorithm and this secret key is encrypted with asymmetric encryption algorithm. The private key is managed and controlled by users. In this way, users guarantee the security of their own data with the sole private key. Providing effective protection for uploading and downloading of user data and good data storage and transmission support for cloud storage application through the data protection mechanism deployed at client, thus solving the biggest obstacle, i.e. security of cloud data in the application of cloud storage enterprises currently to a certain extent.

HBRSS: Providing high-secure data communication and manipulation in insecure cloud environments

Cloud is an evolving computing technology in which the services are provisioned dynamically through internet. The users’ data are stored in the remotely located servers that are maintained by cloud providers. The major security challenge in cloud is that the users cannot have direct control over the remotely stored data. To preserve the privacy of user’s data stored in the cloud, an efficient algorithm maintaining the confidentiality of data is proposed. We ensure that the data stored in the untrusted cloud server is confidential by developing a new data encryption algorithm. Unlike other encryption algorithms, our encryption algorithm needs lesser computation overhead. Encryption and decryption algorithms are developed in java and Remote Method Invocation (RMI) concepts are used for communication between client and server. Simulation environment is set up with the eucalyptus tool. This technique provides the data confidentiality with minimum computational overhead of the client.

Cloud data storage is a model of data storage where data in its digital form is stored in logical pools across the physical storage which is distributed across multiple servers usually in diverse locations. The full physical environment is owned and managed by an organization called Cloud Service Provider (CSP). In this type of storage, the data is distributed and owned by third party, and there is risk of unauthorized access. This makes security, reliability, confidentiality and privacy of data more important when storage in cloud is thought of. Although there are methods available for providing security, much work is not done with emphasis on dynamic nature of the data. Hence securing the data while updating becomes important. In this paper, a method that ensures confidentiality of data stored in cloud using homomorphic encryption is presented. The paper also provides a technique to ensure confidentiality during data updates in cloud. The presented method includes byte level automorphism for ensuring data integrity and confidentiality. The tabulated experimental results show that the proposed method provides more secure frame work for ensuring confidentiality and integrity of data in cloud.

Data Outsourcing and Data Backups is controlled solely by means of external agencies so as to decrease the cost for information administration. Data Protection is the major challenge in public clouds where there is no proper security mechanism followed, so to access data or store data in cloud, the administrator first checks the authentication of user. Proposed system provides Cryptographic tool by utilizing a combination of RSA, AES algorithm and set of rules to accomplish a secure sharing of information. Our convention is based totally upon an association of cryptographic key additives which is exempt from any external cloud administrations.

The Cloud computing technology is a concept of providing online multiple resources in the scalable and reliable method. The user will access cloud service as per their requirement of computing level. There is no capital expenditure involved in computing resources for cloud user. The users have to pay as per their storage, network and service usage. The cloud computing have some highlighted issues like compliance, cross border data storage issues, multi-tenant and down time issues. The most important issues are related to storage of data in cloud. Data confidentiality, data integrity, data authentication and regulations on data protection are major problems that affect user’s business. This paper discusses about encryption and decryption data security issues in cloud and its safety measures and comes out with a novel research work of cloud data security model.

To solve the problem of poor security and performance caused by traditional encryption algorithm in the cloud data storage, we propose a cascade ciphering with randomized algorithm. The multiple encryption is a process to encrypt the data multiple times using the same algorithm or different algorithms, to provide multilayer and multilevel security over unreliable wireless network during communication. The encryption algorithms are AES, MD5, SHA 129, SHA 256, Whirlpool and Blowfish.

Cloud computing is the most demanded advanced technology throughout the world. It is one of the most significant topic whose application is being researched in today's time. One of the prominent services offered in cloud computing is the cloud storage. With the cloud storage, data is stored on multiple third party servers, rather than on the dedicated server used in traditional networked data storage. All data stored on multiple third party servers is not cared by the user and no one knows where exactly data saved. It is cared by the cloud storage provider that claims that they can protect the data but no one believes them. Data stored over cloud and flow through network in the plain text format is security threat. This paper proposes a method that allows user to store and access the data securely from the cloud storage. It also guarantees that no one except the authenticated user can access the data neither the cloud storage provider. This method ensures the security and privacy of data stored on cloud. A further advantage of this method is that if there is security breach at the cloud provider, the user's data will continue to be secure since all data is encrypted. Users also need not to worry about cloud providers gaining access to their data illegally.

A new LabVIEW simulation design was applied to provide a comparison study among several types of the most common symmetric and asymmetric encryption algorithms. Also, the comparison with advanced encryption package program was made. The results showed that the new LabVIEW simulation design had advantages in several points, where the evaluated time required for the encryption and decryption processes will be lesser than it values using advanced encryption package program.In this work, the symmetric encryption algorithms were used: AES (Advanced Encryption Standard), DES (Data Encryption Standard), 3DES (Triple Data Encryption Standard) and RC2 (Rivest Cipher) algorithms, while the asymmetric encryption algorithm used was the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Aldeman) algorithm. The comparison had been achieved using different sizes of text files with different key sizes. The final results proved that the LabVIEW simulation design is better than the Advanced Encryption Package because it increased the algorithm’s performance by 65% in terms of speed and throughput, and for the algorithms’ comparison, the final results showed the effectiveness of AES algorithm over the other algorithms in terms of speed and throughput for the encryption and decryption processes.

With the rapid development of cloud advancement, a data security challenge has emerged. In this paper, a technique based on elliptical cryptography and cuckoo search algorithm is proposed. With this technique, data owners securely store their data files in the cloud server. Initially the user sends a file storage request to store a file in a cloud server provider (CSP). The input file is checked whether it is sensitive or non-sensitive by the user. If the file is sensitive, then it would be split and stored in different virtual machines (VMs), and if the file is non-sensitive, then it would be assigned in a single VM. This approach was used for the first time as per the survey. To add further security, the sensitive data retrieval needs an encryption process that is supported by the proposed algorithm. If the data owner stores the sensitive data to cloud server, the data owner's document is encrypted by the double encryption technique. Here RSA and optimal elliptic curve cryptography (OECC) algorithm is used to encrypt the document with high security. The authors have used cuckoo search algorithm to identify the optimal key in ECC. This paper has proposed a novel cryptography approach for delivering mass distributed storage by which user's original data cannot be directly reached by cloud operators. Hence, this research has proved that the proposed work will give better securable data storage solving the security issues.

Integrating the Internet of Things (IoT) in smart grids has revolutionized the energy sector, enabling real-time data collection and efficient energy distribution. However, this integration also introduces significant security challenges, particularly data encryption. Traditional encryption algorithms used in IoT are vulnerable to various attacks, and the advent of quantum computing exacerbates these vulnerabilities. To address the above challenges, this paper proposes a novel encryption mechanism, the Quantum-Resistant Hybrid Encryption for IoT (QRHE-IoT), designed to enhance the security of communications in IoT-enabled smart grids. QRHE-IoT combines the strengths of symmetric and asymmetric encryption algorithms and incorporates quantum-resistant algorithms to provide robust security. This paper explains the QRHE-IoT mechanism, its theoretical basis, and how it addresses the security challenges in smart grid communications. It also presents the results of tests conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of QRHE-IoT in a simulated smart grid environment. The proposed QRHE-IoT mechanism presents a promising solution to these challenges, offering robust security for smart grid communications in the face of emerging threats, including quantum computing.

Security and privacy are the biggest obstacles in Database as a service (DBaaS) of Cloud Computing. In DbaaS, cloud service providers provide services for storing customers data. As the data are managed by an un-trusted server, the service is not fully trustworthy. The data at the third party data center can be made secure by encrypting the database. But querying the encrypted database is not easy. The result can be obtained from the encrypted database either by decrypting the database for every query or the query itself is encrypted and encrypted query is executed over encrypted database. Another problem associated with most of the database encryption algorithms is that they do not support range query. The proposed framework performs database encryption, query encryption and also supports range query over encrypted databases. This framework is focused on securing database as well as storing sensitive information without any leaks. A double layered encryption is used for sensitive data and a single layer encryption is used for non-sensitive data. Order Preserving Encryption (OPE) is used for single layer encryption. OPE maintains the order in encrypted database and so range query can be performed over encrypted database using encrypted query. OPE has a drawback of revealing information and so for sensitive data, a double layered encryption using Format Preserving Encryption (FPE) followed by OPE symmetric key encryption algorithm is proposed. Symmetric key is used for both OPE and FPE but key is divided into two parts for double encryption.

STaaS (STorage As a Service) is a cloud model that gains popularity among both private users and business enterprises ensuring remote data storage providing giant and scalable cloud based storage spaces. The modified cryptographic approach makes use of the RSA algorithm along with Diffie-Hellman to increase the security of the encrypted data stored in cloud. The input file is split into two, in order to make the access of the whole data difficult, and the split data is encrypted using RSA and Diffie-Hellman before storing them into two different cloud accounts. The split data is then retrieved, and the retrieved cipher data is decrypted to get the original data. The split mechanism does not produce big overheads, and also assures data retrievability. Thus data stored in the cloud is more secured and it prevents cloud providers from directly reaching the cloud data.