cloud computing is also facing many challenges that, if not well resolved, may impede its fast growth. Data security, as it exists in many other applications, is among these challenges that would raise great concerns from users when they store sensitive information on cloud servers. These concerns originate from the fact that cloud servers are usually operated by commercial providers which are very likely to be outside of the trusted domain of the users. Data confidential against cloud servers is hence frequently desired when users outsource data for storage in the cloud.
A Novel Information Accountability Framework for Cloud ComputingIJMER
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) is Peer reviewed, online Journal. It serves as an international archival forum of scholarly research related to engineering and science education.
A robust and verifiable threshold multi authority access control system in pu...IJARIIT
Attribute-based Encryption is observed as a promising cryptographic leading tool to assurance data owners’ direct
regulator over their data in public cloud storage. The former ABE schemes include only one authority to maintain the whole
attribute set, which can carry a single-point bottleneck on both security and performance. Then, certain multi-authority
schemes are planned, in which numerous authorities distinctly maintain split attribute subsets. However, the single-point
bottleneck problem remains unsolved. In this survey paper, from another perspective, we conduct a threshold multi-authority
CP-ABE access control scheme for public cloud storage, named TMACS, in which multiple authorities jointly manage a
uniform attribute set. In TMACS, taking advantage of (t, n) threshold secret allocation, the master key can be shared among
multiple authorities, and a lawful user can generate his/her secret key by interacting with any t authorities. Security and
performance analysis results show that TMACS is not only verifiable secure when less than t authorities are compromised, but
also robust when no less than t authorities are alive in the system. Also, by efficiently combining the traditional multi-authority
scheme with TMACS, we construct a hybrid one, which satisfies the scenario of attributes coming from different authorities as
well as achieving security and system-level robustness.
This document discusses enforcing multi-user security policies in cloud computing. It describes using key-policy attribute-based encryption (KP-ABE) to allow flexible and fine-grained access control of encrypted data stored on cloud servers. The database is encrypted using KP-ABE before being stored. The key management authority generates key sets for authorized users that determine which attributes they can access. This allows complex queries to be run on the encrypted database while maintaining security and privacy.
iaetsd Shared authority based privacy preserving protocolIaetsd Iaetsd
This document proposes a Shared Authority based Privacy preserving Authentication protocol (SAPA) for handling privacy issues in cloud storage. SAPA achieves shared access authority through an anonymous access request matching mechanism. It applies attribute-based access control to allow users to reliably access their own data fields. It also uses proxy re-encryption to provide temporary authorized data sharing among multiple users. The goal is to preserve user privacy during data access and sharing in the cloud.
A Privacy Preserving Attribute Based Access Control Mechanism In Distributed ...Editor IJCATR
We propose a new decentralized access control scheme for secure data storage in clouds that supports anonymous
authentication. In the proposed scheme, the cloud verifies the authenticity of the series without knowing the user’s identity before
storing data. Our scheme also has the added feature of access control in which only valid users are able to decrypt the stored
information. The scheme prevents replay attacks and supports creation, modification, and reading data stored in the cloud. We also
address user revocation. Moreover, our authentication and access control scheme is decentralized and robust, unlike other access
control schemes designed for clouds which are centralized. The communication, computation, and storage overheads are comparable
to centralized approaches.
A PRACTICAL CLIENT APPLICATION BASED ON ATTRIBUTE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL FOR UN...cscpconf
One of widely used cryptographic primitives for the cloud application is Attribute Based Encryption (ABE) where users can have their own attributes and a ciphertext encrypted by an access policy. Though ABE provides many benefits, the novelty often only exists in an academic world and it is often difficult to find a practical use of ABE for a real application. In this paper, we discuss the design and implementation of a cloud storage client application which supports the concept of ABE. Our proposed client provides an effective access control mechanism where it allows different types of access policy to be defined thus allowing large datasets to be shared by multiple users. Using different access policy, each user only needs to access only a small part of the big data. The goal of our experiment is to explore the right set of strategies for developing a practical ABE-based system. Through the implementation and evaluation, we have determined the various characteristics and issues associated with developing a practical ABEbased
application.
Cloud Auditing With Zero Knowledge PrivacyIJERA Editor
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new approach for auditing data stored in the cloud while preserving privacy. It begins with an introduction to cloud computing and common security issues when data is stored remotely. It then discusses existing methods for third-party auditing of cloud data that allow users to verify integrity and correctness, but compromise privacy. The proposed method uses Shamir's secret sharing algorithm to divide user data into shares and store each share on a different cloud server. This allows a third-party auditor to verify integrity without accessing or viewing the actual data contents, thus preserving privacy. The goals and design of the proposed approach are described, including how the secret sharing technique works mathematically to split data into threshold shares.
A Novel Information Accountability Framework for Cloud ComputingIJMER
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) is Peer reviewed, online Journal. It serves as an international archival forum of scholarly research related to engineering and science education.
A robust and verifiable threshold multi authority access control system in pu...IJARIIT
Attribute-based Encryption is observed as a promising cryptographic leading tool to assurance data owners’ direct
regulator over their data in public cloud storage. The former ABE schemes include only one authority to maintain the whole
attribute set, which can carry a single-point bottleneck on both security and performance. Then, certain multi-authority
schemes are planned, in which numerous authorities distinctly maintain split attribute subsets. However, the single-point
bottleneck problem remains unsolved. In this survey paper, from another perspective, we conduct a threshold multi-authority
CP-ABE access control scheme for public cloud storage, named TMACS, in which multiple authorities jointly manage a
uniform attribute set. In TMACS, taking advantage of (t, n) threshold secret allocation, the master key can be shared among
multiple authorities, and a lawful user can generate his/her secret key by interacting with any t authorities. Security and
performance analysis results show that TMACS is not only verifiable secure when less than t authorities are compromised, but
also robust when no less than t authorities are alive in the system. Also, by efficiently combining the traditional multi-authority
scheme with TMACS, we construct a hybrid one, which satisfies the scenario of attributes coming from different authorities as
well as achieving security and system-level robustness.
This document discusses enforcing multi-user security policies in cloud computing. It describes using key-policy attribute-based encryption (KP-ABE) to allow flexible and fine-grained access control of encrypted data stored on cloud servers. The database is encrypted using KP-ABE before being stored. The key management authority generates key sets for authorized users that determine which attributes they can access. This allows complex queries to be run on the encrypted database while maintaining security and privacy.
iaetsd Shared authority based privacy preserving protocolIaetsd Iaetsd
This document proposes a Shared Authority based Privacy preserving Authentication protocol (SAPA) for handling privacy issues in cloud storage. SAPA achieves shared access authority through an anonymous access request matching mechanism. It applies attribute-based access control to allow users to reliably access their own data fields. It also uses proxy re-encryption to provide temporary authorized data sharing among multiple users. The goal is to preserve user privacy during data access and sharing in the cloud.
A Privacy Preserving Attribute Based Access Control Mechanism In Distributed ...Editor IJCATR
We propose a new decentralized access control scheme for secure data storage in clouds that supports anonymous
authentication. In the proposed scheme, the cloud verifies the authenticity of the series without knowing the user’s identity before
storing data. Our scheme also has the added feature of access control in which only valid users are able to decrypt the stored
information. The scheme prevents replay attacks and supports creation, modification, and reading data stored in the cloud. We also
address user revocation. Moreover, our authentication and access control scheme is decentralized and robust, unlike other access
control schemes designed for clouds which are centralized. The communication, computation, and storage overheads are comparable
to centralized approaches.
A PRACTICAL CLIENT APPLICATION BASED ON ATTRIBUTE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL FOR UN...cscpconf
One of widely used cryptographic primitives for the cloud application is Attribute Based Encryption (ABE) where users can have their own attributes and a ciphertext encrypted by an access policy. Though ABE provides many benefits, the novelty often only exists in an academic world and it is often difficult to find a practical use of ABE for a real application. In this paper, we discuss the design and implementation of a cloud storage client application which supports the concept of ABE. Our proposed client provides an effective access control mechanism where it allows different types of access policy to be defined thus allowing large datasets to be shared by multiple users. Using different access policy, each user only needs to access only a small part of the big data. The goal of our experiment is to explore the right set of strategies for developing a practical ABE-based system. Through the implementation and evaluation, we have determined the various characteristics and issues associated with developing a practical ABEbased
application.
Cloud Auditing With Zero Knowledge PrivacyIJERA Editor
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new approach for auditing data stored in the cloud while preserving privacy. It begins with an introduction to cloud computing and common security issues when data is stored remotely. It then discusses existing methods for third-party auditing of cloud data that allow users to verify integrity and correctness, but compromise privacy. The proposed method uses Shamir's secret sharing algorithm to divide user data into shares and store each share on a different cloud server. This allows a third-party auditor to verify integrity without accessing or viewing the actual data contents, thus preserving privacy. The goals and design of the proposed approach are described, including how the secret sharing technique works mathematically to split data into threshold shares.
A Survey on Different Techniques Used in Decentralized Cloud ComputingEditor IJCATR
This paper proposes various methods for anonymous authentication for data stored in cloud. Cloud verifies the authenticity
of the series without knowing the user’s identity before storing data. This paper also has the added feature of access control in which
only valid users are able to decrypt the stored information. These schemes also prevents replay attacks and supports creation,
modification, and reading data stored in the cloud. Moreover, our authentication and access control scheme is decentralized and robust,
unlike other access control schemes designed for clouds which are centralized. The communication, computation, and storage
overheads are comparable to centralized approaches .The aim of this paper is to cover many security issues arises in cloud computing
and different schemes to prevent security risks in cloud. Storage-as-a-service (Saas) offered by cloud service providers (CSPs) is a paid
facility that enables organizations to outsource their sensitive data to be stored on remote servers. In this paper, we propose a cloudbased
storage schemes that allows the data owner to benefit from the facilities offered by the CSP and enables indirect mutual trust
between them. This Paper provides different authentication techniques and algorithms for cloud security.
Messages addressed to specific users can be decrypted by Key Generation Centre (KGC) by generating their private keys. Data owner wants the data to be delivered only to specified user and not to unauthorized person that is the data owner makes their private data accessible only to authorized person. We propose attribute based encryption and escrow problem which means written agreement delivered to a third party to overcome this problem. Attribute based Encryption (ABE) is a type of public-key encryption in which the private key of a user and the cipher text are dependent upon attributes. It is a promising cryptographic approach.
Cloud computing is rapidly emerging due to the provisioning of elastic, flexible, and on demand storage and computing services for customers. The data is usually encrypted before storing to the cloud. The access control, key management, encryption, and decryption processes are handled by the customers to ensure data security. A single key shared between all group members will result in the access of past data to a newly joining member. The aforesaid situation violates the confidentiality and the principle of least privilege.
IRJET- Secure Data Sharing Scheme for Mobile Cloud Computing using SEDASCIRJET Journal
1) The document proposes a Secure Data Sharing in Clouds (SeDaSC) methodology for secure data sharing in cloud computing.
2) SeDaSC provides data confidentiality and integrity, access control, secure data sharing without reencryption, protection from insider threats, and forward/backward access control.
3) It encrypts files with a single key, and generates two shares of the key - one given to the user and the other stored by a trusted third party, to prevent insider threats from malicious users.
CLOUD BASED ACCESS CONTROL MODEL FOR SELECTIVE ENCRYPTION OF DOCUMENTS WITH T...IJNSA Journal
This document proposes a cloud-based access control model for selectively encrypting documents with traitor detection. It aims to address the high computational overhead of key management and secret sharing in existing attribute-based encryption approaches for cloud data security. The proposed model uses efficient algorithms and protocols like aggregate equality oblivious commitment-based envelope protocol and fast access control vector broadcast group key management to reduce overhead. It also introduces a traitor tracing technique to identify any traitors in the two-layer encryption environment for cloud computing.
Enforcing multi user access policies in cloud computingIAEME Publication
This document discusses enforcing multi-user access policies in cloud computing. It describes how encryption techniques can be used to securely store data in the cloud and allow authorized users to access encrypted data through key management. The document also discusses security risks in cloud computing like authentication, access control and data leaks. It argues that a policy-based approach is needed to define and enforce access policies for users to access encrypted data securely in the cloud.
Carrying out safe exploration short of the actual data of codes and trapdoorsIaetsd Iaetsd
The document proposes a Privacy Protecting Rated Multi-keyword Search scheme (PRMSM) for multi-owner cloud environments. PRMSM allows cloud servers to perform secure searches without knowing the actual values of keywords or trapdoors. It also supports efficient user revocation. Dynamic secret key generation and user authentication protocols are proposed to prevent attackers from posing as legitimate users. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of PRMSM for large datasets.
Secure Data Sharing In an Untrusted CloudIJERA Editor
Cloud computing is a huge area which basically provides many services on the basis of pay as you go. One of the fundamental services provided by cloud is data storage. Cloud provides cost efficiency and an efficient solution for sharing resource among cloud users. A secure and efficient data sharing scheme for groups in cloud is not an easy task. On one hand customers are not ready to share their identity but on other hand want to enjoy the cost efficiency provided by the cloud. It needs to provide identity privacy, multiple owner and dynamic data sharing without getting effected by the number of cloud users revoked. In this paper, any member of a group can completely enjoy the data storing and sharing services by the cloud. A secure data sharing scheme for dynamic cloud users is proposed in this paper. For which it uses group signature and dynamic broadcast encryption techniques such that any user in a group can share the information in a secured manner. Additionally the permission option is proposed for the security reasons. This means the file access permissions are generated by the admin and given to the user using Role Based Access Control (RBA) algorithm. The file access permissions are read, write and delete. In this, owner can provide files with options and accepts the users using that option. The revocation of cloud user is a function generated by the Admin for security purpose. The encryption computational cost and storage overhead is not dependent on the number of users revoked. We analyze the security by proofs and produce the cloud efficiency report using cloudsim.
The document proposes a shared authority based privacy-preserving authentication protocol (SAPA) for cloud data storage. SAPA allows for authentication and authorization without compromising a user's private information. It addresses privacy issues during data sharing in cloud storage by implementing an anonymous access request matching mechanism and applying attribute-based access control with proxy re-encryption for temporary authorized data sharing between users. The proposed system provides advantages over existing systems by allowing data owners to control access and sharing privileges while preserving user privacy during authentication and authorization.
1) The document proposes a system model for secure data sharing in cloud environments using cryptography.
2) It aims to provide data confidentiality, access control of shared data, remove the burden of key management and file encryption/decryption for users, and support dynamic changes to user membership without requiring the data owner to always be online.
3) The proposed system addresses common challenges with secure data sharing in cloud computing like data security, access control, key management, and user revocation and rejoining.
Cloud Computing Using Encryption and Intrusion Detectionijsrd.com
Cloud computing provides many benefits to the users such as accessibility and availability. As the data is available over the cloud, it can be accessed by different users. There may be sensitive data of organization. This is the one issue to provide access to authenticated users only. But the data can be accessed by the owner of the cloud. So to avoid getting data being accessed by the cloud owner, we will use the intrusion detection system to provide security to the data. The other issue is to save the data backup in other cloud in encrypted form so that load balancing can be done. This will help the user with data availability in case of failure of one cloud.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Shared authority based privacy preserving authentication protocol in cloud co...Pvrtechnologies Nellore
The document proposes a shared authority based privacy-preserving authentication protocol (SAPA) for cloud storage to address privacy issues when users request to share access to each other's authorized data fields.
The SAPA allows for shared access authority through an anonymous access request matching mechanism that considers authentication, data anonymity, user privacy, and forward security. It also uses attribute based access control for users to only access their own data fields and proxy re-encryption for temporary data sharing among users.
The protocol is designed to enhance user privacy during access requests by not revealing a user's interests or access desires, whether or not they receive access permissions. It aims to simultaneously provide data access control, shared access authority, and privacy preservation
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This document proposes a shared authority based privacy-preserving authentication protocol (SAPA) for cloud storage. SAPA allows for anonymous access requests and attribute-based access control, while encrypting data to preserve privacy. It aims to address privacy issues when a user requests data sharing from other users and the cloud server, where the request itself could reveal private information. The protocol uses anonymous matching of access requests, encryption of data, and temporary authorized data sharing between users through proxy re-encryption. It is designed to simultaneously provide access control, sharing of access authority, and privacy preservation for collaborative cloud applications.
Secure Data Storage in Cloud Using Encryption and Steganographyiosrjce
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
This document discusses enforcing multi-user security policies in cloud computing. It describes using key-policy attribute-based encryption (KP-ABE) to allow flexible and fine-grained access control of encrypted data stored on cloud servers. The database is encrypted using KP-ABE before being stored. A key management authority generates key sets for authorized users to decrypt portions of the database according to assigned access policies. This allows complex queries to be run on the encrypted database while protecting data confidentiality even from the cloud server.
IRJET- Mutual Key Oversight Procedure for Cloud Security and Distribution of ...IRJET Journal
The document proposes a mutual key oversight procedure for cloud security and distribution of data based on a hierarchy method. It discusses using attribute-based encryption to encrypt data before outsourcing it to the cloud. The proposed scheme uses a hierarchical structure with a cloud authority, domain authorities, and users to provide security and scalability. It allows both private and public uploading and sharing of files within this hierarchy.
A Secure Multi-Owner Data Sharing Scheme for Dynamic Group in Public Cloud. IJCERT JOURNAL
In cloud computing outsourcing group resource among cloud users is a major challenge, so cloud computing provides a low-cost and well-organized solution. Due to frequent change of membership, sharing data in a multi-owner manner to an untrusted cloud is still its challenging issue. In this paper we proposed a secure multi-owner data sharing scheme for dynamic group in public cloud. By providing AES encryption with convergent key while uploading the data, any cloud user can securely share data with others. Meanwhile, the storage overhead and encryption computation cost of the scheme are independent with the number of revoked users. In addition, I analyze the security of this scheme with rigorous proofs. One-Time Password is one of the easiest and most popular forms of authentication that can be used for securing access to accounts. One-Time Passwords are often referred to as secure and stronger forms of authentication in multi-owner manner. Extensive security and performance analysis shows that our proposed scheme is highly efficient and satisfies the security requirements for public cloud based secure group sharing.
Enhanced security framework to ensure data security in cloud using security b...eSAT Journals
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new password management system called Security Blanket Algorithm. The system uses strong encryption to securely store user logins, passwords, credit cards and other sensitive information in the cloud or locally on a device. When adding a new device, the system implements two-factor authentication for security. All data and communications are encrypted using AES-256. The system aims to provide secure password management while hiding encryption keys and passwords from cloud servers or third parties.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
A Survey on Different Techniques Used in Decentralized Cloud ComputingEditor IJCATR
This paper proposes various methods for anonymous authentication for data stored in cloud. Cloud verifies the authenticity
of the series without knowing the user’s identity before storing data. This paper also has the added feature of access control in which
only valid users are able to decrypt the stored information. These schemes also prevents replay attacks and supports creation,
modification, and reading data stored in the cloud. Moreover, our authentication and access control scheme is decentralized and robust,
unlike other access control schemes designed for clouds which are centralized. The communication, computation, and storage
overheads are comparable to centralized approaches .The aim of this paper is to cover many security issues arises in cloud computing
and different schemes to prevent security risks in cloud. Storage-as-a-service (Saas) offered by cloud service providers (CSPs) is a paid
facility that enables organizations to outsource their sensitive data to be stored on remote servers. In this paper, we propose a cloudbased
storage schemes that allows the data owner to benefit from the facilities offered by the CSP and enables indirect mutual trust
between them. This Paper provides different authentication techniques and algorithms for cloud security.
Messages addressed to specific users can be decrypted by Key Generation Centre (KGC) by generating their private keys. Data owner wants the data to be delivered only to specified user and not to unauthorized person that is the data owner makes their private data accessible only to authorized person. We propose attribute based encryption and escrow problem which means written agreement delivered to a third party to overcome this problem. Attribute based Encryption (ABE) is a type of public-key encryption in which the private key of a user and the cipher text are dependent upon attributes. It is a promising cryptographic approach.
Cloud computing is rapidly emerging due to the provisioning of elastic, flexible, and on demand storage and computing services for customers. The data is usually encrypted before storing to the cloud. The access control, key management, encryption, and decryption processes are handled by the customers to ensure data security. A single key shared between all group members will result in the access of past data to a newly joining member. The aforesaid situation violates the confidentiality and the principle of least privilege.
IRJET- Secure Data Sharing Scheme for Mobile Cloud Computing using SEDASCIRJET Journal
1) The document proposes a Secure Data Sharing in Clouds (SeDaSC) methodology for secure data sharing in cloud computing.
2) SeDaSC provides data confidentiality and integrity, access control, secure data sharing without reencryption, protection from insider threats, and forward/backward access control.
3) It encrypts files with a single key, and generates two shares of the key - one given to the user and the other stored by a trusted third party, to prevent insider threats from malicious users.
CLOUD BASED ACCESS CONTROL MODEL FOR SELECTIVE ENCRYPTION OF DOCUMENTS WITH T...IJNSA Journal
This document proposes a cloud-based access control model for selectively encrypting documents with traitor detection. It aims to address the high computational overhead of key management and secret sharing in existing attribute-based encryption approaches for cloud data security. The proposed model uses efficient algorithms and protocols like aggregate equality oblivious commitment-based envelope protocol and fast access control vector broadcast group key management to reduce overhead. It also introduces a traitor tracing technique to identify any traitors in the two-layer encryption environment for cloud computing.
Enforcing multi user access policies in cloud computingIAEME Publication
This document discusses enforcing multi-user access policies in cloud computing. It describes how encryption techniques can be used to securely store data in the cloud and allow authorized users to access encrypted data through key management. The document also discusses security risks in cloud computing like authentication, access control and data leaks. It argues that a policy-based approach is needed to define and enforce access policies for users to access encrypted data securely in the cloud.
Carrying out safe exploration short of the actual data of codes and trapdoorsIaetsd Iaetsd
The document proposes a Privacy Protecting Rated Multi-keyword Search scheme (PRMSM) for multi-owner cloud environments. PRMSM allows cloud servers to perform secure searches without knowing the actual values of keywords or trapdoors. It also supports efficient user revocation. Dynamic secret key generation and user authentication protocols are proposed to prevent attackers from posing as legitimate users. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of PRMSM for large datasets.
Secure Data Sharing In an Untrusted CloudIJERA Editor
Cloud computing is a huge area which basically provides many services on the basis of pay as you go. One of the fundamental services provided by cloud is data storage. Cloud provides cost efficiency and an efficient solution for sharing resource among cloud users. A secure and efficient data sharing scheme for groups in cloud is not an easy task. On one hand customers are not ready to share their identity but on other hand want to enjoy the cost efficiency provided by the cloud. It needs to provide identity privacy, multiple owner and dynamic data sharing without getting effected by the number of cloud users revoked. In this paper, any member of a group can completely enjoy the data storing and sharing services by the cloud. A secure data sharing scheme for dynamic cloud users is proposed in this paper. For which it uses group signature and dynamic broadcast encryption techniques such that any user in a group can share the information in a secured manner. Additionally the permission option is proposed for the security reasons. This means the file access permissions are generated by the admin and given to the user using Role Based Access Control (RBA) algorithm. The file access permissions are read, write and delete. In this, owner can provide files with options and accepts the users using that option. The revocation of cloud user is a function generated by the Admin for security purpose. The encryption computational cost and storage overhead is not dependent on the number of users revoked. We analyze the security by proofs and produce the cloud efficiency report using cloudsim.
The document proposes a shared authority based privacy-preserving authentication protocol (SAPA) for cloud data storage. SAPA allows for authentication and authorization without compromising a user's private information. It addresses privacy issues during data sharing in cloud storage by implementing an anonymous access request matching mechanism and applying attribute-based access control with proxy re-encryption for temporary authorized data sharing between users. The proposed system provides advantages over existing systems by allowing data owners to control access and sharing privileges while preserving user privacy during authentication and authorization.
1) The document proposes a system model for secure data sharing in cloud environments using cryptography.
2) It aims to provide data confidentiality, access control of shared data, remove the burden of key management and file encryption/decryption for users, and support dynamic changes to user membership without requiring the data owner to always be online.
3) The proposed system addresses common challenges with secure data sharing in cloud computing like data security, access control, key management, and user revocation and rejoining.
Cloud Computing Using Encryption and Intrusion Detectionijsrd.com
Cloud computing provides many benefits to the users such as accessibility and availability. As the data is available over the cloud, it can be accessed by different users. There may be sensitive data of organization. This is the one issue to provide access to authenticated users only. But the data can be accessed by the owner of the cloud. So to avoid getting data being accessed by the cloud owner, we will use the intrusion detection system to provide security to the data. The other issue is to save the data backup in other cloud in encrypted form so that load balancing can be done. This will help the user with data availability in case of failure of one cloud.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Shared authority based privacy preserving authentication protocol in cloud co...Pvrtechnologies Nellore
The document proposes a shared authority based privacy-preserving authentication protocol (SAPA) for cloud storage to address privacy issues when users request to share access to each other's authorized data fields.
The SAPA allows for shared access authority through an anonymous access request matching mechanism that considers authentication, data anonymity, user privacy, and forward security. It also uses attribute based access control for users to only access their own data fields and proxy re-encryption for temporary data sharing among users.
The protocol is designed to enhance user privacy during access requests by not revealing a user's interests or access desires, whether or not they receive access permissions. It aims to simultaneously provide data access control, shared access authority, and privacy preservation
Shared authority based privacy preserving authentication protocol in cloud co...Adz91 Digital Ads Pvt Ltd
This document proposes a shared authority based privacy-preserving authentication protocol (SAPA) for cloud storage. SAPA allows for anonymous access requests and attribute-based access control, while encrypting data to preserve privacy. It aims to address privacy issues when a user requests data sharing from other users and the cloud server, where the request itself could reveal private information. The protocol uses anonymous matching of access requests, encryption of data, and temporary authorized data sharing between users through proxy re-encryption. It is designed to simultaneously provide access control, sharing of access authority, and privacy preservation for collaborative cloud applications.
Secure Data Storage in Cloud Using Encryption and Steganographyiosrjce
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
This document discusses enforcing multi-user security policies in cloud computing. It describes using key-policy attribute-based encryption (KP-ABE) to allow flexible and fine-grained access control of encrypted data stored on cloud servers. The database is encrypted using KP-ABE before being stored. A key management authority generates key sets for authorized users to decrypt portions of the database according to assigned access policies. This allows complex queries to be run on the encrypted database while protecting data confidentiality even from the cloud server.
IRJET- Mutual Key Oversight Procedure for Cloud Security and Distribution of ...IRJET Journal
The document proposes a mutual key oversight procedure for cloud security and distribution of data based on a hierarchy method. It discusses using attribute-based encryption to encrypt data before outsourcing it to the cloud. The proposed scheme uses a hierarchical structure with a cloud authority, domain authorities, and users to provide security and scalability. It allows both private and public uploading and sharing of files within this hierarchy.
A Secure Multi-Owner Data Sharing Scheme for Dynamic Group in Public Cloud. IJCERT JOURNAL
In cloud computing outsourcing group resource among cloud users is a major challenge, so cloud computing provides a low-cost and well-organized solution. Due to frequent change of membership, sharing data in a multi-owner manner to an untrusted cloud is still its challenging issue. In this paper we proposed a secure multi-owner data sharing scheme for dynamic group in public cloud. By providing AES encryption with convergent key while uploading the data, any cloud user can securely share data with others. Meanwhile, the storage overhead and encryption computation cost of the scheme are independent with the number of revoked users. In addition, I analyze the security of this scheme with rigorous proofs. One-Time Password is one of the easiest and most popular forms of authentication that can be used for securing access to accounts. One-Time Passwords are often referred to as secure and stronger forms of authentication in multi-owner manner. Extensive security and performance analysis shows that our proposed scheme is highly efficient and satisfies the security requirements for public cloud based secure group sharing.
Enhanced security framework to ensure data security in cloud using security b...eSAT Journals
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a new password management system called Security Blanket Algorithm. The system uses strong encryption to securely store user logins, passwords, credit cards and other sensitive information in the cloud or locally on a device. When adding a new device, the system implements two-factor authentication for security. All data and communications are encrypted using AES-256. The system aims to provide secure password management while hiding encryption keys and passwords from cloud servers or third parties.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology.
Accountability in Distributed Environment For Data Sharing in the CloudEditor IJCATR
Cloud computing enables highly scalable services to be easily consumed over the Internet on an as-needed basis.
A major feature of the cloud services is that users‘ data are usually processed remotely in unknown machines that users do
not own or operate. While enjoying the convenience brought by this new emerging technology, users‘ fears of losing control
of their own data (particularly, financial and health data) can become a significant barrier to the wide adoption of cloud
services. To address this problem, in this paper, we propose a novel highly decentralized information accountability
framework to keep track of the actual usage of the users ‗data in the cloud. In particular, we propose an object-centred
approach that enables enclosing our logging mechanism together with users‘ data and policies. We leverage the JAR
programmable capabilities to both create a dynamic and travelling object, and to ensure that any access to users‘ data will
trigger authentication and automated logging local to the JARs. To strengthen user‘s control, we also provide distributed
auditing mechanisms
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The Data sharing is an important functionality in cloud storage. In this article, we show how to securely, efficiently, and
flexibly share data with others in cloud storage. We describe new public-key cryptosystems which produce constant-size ciphertexts
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of secret keys and make them as compact as a single key, but encompassing the power of all the keys being aggregated. In other
words, the secret key holder can release a constant-size aggregate key for flexible choices of ciphertext set in cloud storage, but the
other encrypted files outside the set remain confidential. This compact aggregate key can be conveniently sent to others or be stored in
a smart card with very limited secure storage. We provide formal security analysis of our schemes in the standard model. We also
describe other application of our schemes. In particular, our schemes give the first public-key patient controlled encryption for flexible
hierarchy, which was yet to be known.
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A Secure, Scalable, Flexible and Fine-Grained Access Control Using Hierarchic...Editor IJCATR
Cloud Computing is going to be very popular technology in IT enterprises. For any enterprise the data stored is very huge
and invaluable. Since all tasks are performed through network it has become vital to have the secured use of legitimate data. In cloud
computing the most important matter of concern are data security and privacy along with flexibility, scalability and fine grained access
control of data being the other requirements to be maintained by cloud systems Access control is one of the prominent research topics
and hence various schemes have been proposed and implemented. But most of them do not provide flexibility, scalability and fine
grained access control of the data on the cloud. In order to address the issues of flexibility, scalability and fine grained access control
of remotely stored data on cloud we have proposed the hierarchical attribute set-based encryption (HASBE) which is the extension of
attribute- set-based encryption(ASBE) with a hierarchical structure of users. The proposed scheme achieves scalability by handling the
authority to appropriate entity in the hierarchical structure, inherits flexibility by allowing easy transfer and access to the data in case
of location switch. It provides fine grained access control of data by showing only the requested and authorized details to the user thus
improving the performance of the system. In addition, it provides efficient user revocation within expiration time, request to view
extra-attributes and privacy in the intra-level hierarchy is achieved. Thus the scheme is implemented to show that is efficient in access
control of data as well as security of data stored on cloud with comprehensive experiments
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The document proposes a novel Cloud Information Accountability (CIA) framework to provide distributed accountability for data sharing in the cloud. The CIA framework uses a decentralized, object-centered approach that binds logging mechanisms to users' data and policies through Java Archive (JAR) files. This allows any access to user data to automatically trigger authenticated logging. The framework provides users with control and transparency over how their data is used according to service level agreements. Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of the CIA framework.
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This document proposes a privacy-preserving public auditing scheme for data storage in cloud computing. It allows a third party auditor (TPA) to efficiently audit the integrity of outsourced data in the cloud without learning anything about the data contents. The scheme utilizes homomorphic linear authenticators and random masking to guarantee privacy during the auditing process. It also supports batch auditing, allowing the TPA to concurrently audit data from multiple users at once in an efficient manner. The goal is to enable public auditing while maintaining privacy, correctness of stored data, and lightweight computation and communication overhead.
Data Stream Controller for Enterprise Cloud ApplicationIJSRD
Cloud computing is an emerging computing paradigm where computing resources are provided as services over Internet while residing in a large data center. Even though it enables us to dynamically provide servers with the ability to address a wide range of needs, this paradigm brings forth many new challenges for the data security and access control as users outsource their sensitive data to clouds, which are beyond the same trusted domain as data owners. The occupier need not be concerned with how the Paas system achieves expansion under high load.MAC systems differ as security policy is defined for the entire system, typically by administrators. Information flow control (IFC) is a MAC approach, developed originally from military information management methodologies. IFC can be used to enforce more general policies, using appropriate labeling and checking schemes. The labels can be used to manage both confidentiality and integrity concerns, tracking “secrecy†and “quality†of data, respectively. Decentralized Information Flow Control (DIFC) is an approach to security that allows application writers to control how data flow between the pieces of application and the outside world. As applied to privacy DIFC allows un trusted software to compute with private data while trusted security code controls the release of that data. As applied to integrity DIFC allows trusted code to protect un trusted software from unexpected inputs.
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In cloud computing, data owners crowd their data on cloud servers and users (data consumers) can access the data from cloud servers. Due to the data outsourcing, however, it requires an independent auditing service to check the data integrity in the cloud. Some existing remote integrity checking method scan only serve for static records data. Thus, cannot be used in the auditing service since the data in the cloud can be animatedly updated. Thus, an efficient and secure dynamic auditing protocol is required to convince data owners that the data are correctly stored in the cloud. In this paper, we first design an auditing framework for cloud storage systems for privacy-preserving auditing protocol. Then, we extend our auditing protocol to support the data dynamic operations, which is efficient to secure the random model.
CLOUD BASED ACCESS CONTROL MODEL FOR SELECTIVE ENCRYPTION OF DOCUMENTS WITH T...IJNSA Journal
Cloud computing refers to a type of networked computing whereby an application can be run on connected servers instead of local servers. Cloud can be used to store data, share resources and also to provide services. Technically, there is very little difference between public and private cloud architecture. However, the security and privacy of the data is a very big issue when sensitive data is being entrusted to third party cloud service providers. Thus encryption with a fine grained access control is inevitable to enforce security in clouds. Several techniques implementing attribute based encryption for fine grained access control have been proposed. Under such approaches, the key management overhead is a little bit high in terms of computational complexity. Also, secret sharing mechanisms have added complexity. Moreover, they lack mechanisms to handle existence of traitors. Our proposed approach addresses these requirements and reduces the overhead of the key management as well as secret sharing by using efficient algorithms and protocols. Also, a traitor tracing technique is introduced into the cloud computing two layer encryption environment.
Survey on Privacy- Preserving Multi keyword Ranked Search over Encrypted Clou...Editor IJMTER
The advent of cloud computing, data owners are motivated to outsource their complex
data management systems from local sites to commercial public cloud for great flexibility and
economic savings. But for protecting data privacy, sensitive data has to be encrypted before
outsourcing.Considering the large number of data users and documents in cloud, it is crucial for
the search service to allow multi-keyword query and provide result similarity ranking to meet the
effective data retrieval need. Related works on searchable encryption focus on single keyword
search or Boolean keyword search, and rarely differentiate the search results. We first propose a
basic MRSE scheme using secure inner product computation, and then significantly improve it to
meet different privacy requirements in two levels of threat models. The Incremental High Utility
Pattern Transaction Frequency Tree (IHUPTF-Tree) is designed according to the transaction
frequency (descending order) of items to obtain a compact tree.
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is used to sort the items. Thus the items are sorted and frequent pattern is obtained. The frequent
pattern items are retrieved from the database by using hybrid tree (H-Tree) structure. So the
execution time becomes faster. Finally, the frequent pattern item that satisfies the threshold value
is displayed.
Secure Redundant Data Avoidance over Multi-Cloud Architecture. IJCERT JOURNAL
Redundant data avoidance systems, the Private Cloud are involved as a proxy to allow data owner/users to securely perform duplicate check with differential privileges. Such architecture is practical and has attracted much attention from researchers. The data owners only outsource their data storage by utilizing public cloud while the data operation is managed in private cloud, in this connection our presented system has follows traditional encryption while providing data confidentiality, is incompatible with redundant data avoidance. Identical data copies of different users will lead to different ciphertexts, making data avoidance impossible. To address above issues convergent encryption technique has been proposed to encrypt the data before outsourcing. To better protect data security, this paper makes the first attempt to formally address the problem of authorized redundant data avoidance. Different from traditional redundant data avoidance systems, the differential privileges of users are further considered in duplicate check besides the data itself. We also present several new redundant data avoidance constructions supporting authorized duplicate check in a multi-cloud architecture. Security analysis demonstrates that our scheme is secure in terms of the definitions specified in the proposed security model. In order to perform secure access controlling scheme user may satisfy fine-grained approach at cloud level towards access restricting from unauthorized users or adversaries.
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What we then want to do is use this to highlight how services in the future may need to adapt.
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Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION
cloud computing is also facing many challenges that, if not well resolved, may impede
its fast growth. Data security, as it exists in many other applications, is among these challenges
that would raise great concerns from users when they store sensitive information on cloud
servers. These concerns originate from the fact that cloud servers are usually operated by
commercial providers which are very likely to be outside of the trusted domain of the users. Data
confidential against cloud servers is hence frequently desired when users outsource data for
storage in the cloud. In some practical application systems, data confidentiality is not only a
security/privacy issue, but also of juristic concerns. For example, in healthcare application
scenarios use and disclosure of protected health information (PHI) should meet the requirements
of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and keeping user data
confidential against the storage servers is not just an option, but a requirement. Furthermore, we
observe that there are also cases in which cloud users themselves are content providers. They
publish data on cloud servers for sharing and need fine-grained data access control in terms of
which user (data consumer) has the access privilege to which types of data. In the healthcare
case, for example, a medical center would be the data owner who stores millions of healthcare
records in the cloud. It would allow data consumers such as doctors, patients, researchers and etc,
to access various types of healthcare records under policies admitted by HIPAA. To enforce
these access policies, the data owners on one hand would like to take advantage of the abundant
resources that the cloud provides for efficiency and economy; on the other hand, they may want
to keep the data contents confidential against cloud servers.
We address this open issue and propose a secure and scalable fine-grained data access
control scheme for cloud computing. Our proposed scheme is partially based on our observation
that, in practical application scenarios each data file can be associated with a set of attributes
which are meaningful in the context of interest. As the logical expression can represent any
desired data file set, fine-grainedness of data access control is achieved. To enforce these access
structures, we define a public key component for each attribute. Data files are encrypted using
public key components corresponding to their attributes.
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User secret keys are defined to reflect their access structures so that a user is able to decrypt a
ciphertext if and only if the data file attributes satisfy his access structure. Such a design also
brings about the efficiency benefit, as compared to previous works, in that, 1) the complexity of
encryption is just related the number of attributes associated to the data file, and is independent to
the number of users in the system; and 2) data file creation/deletion and new user grant
operations just affect current file/user without involving system-wide data file update or re-
keying. One extremely challenging issue with this design is the implementation of user
revocation, which would inevitably require re-encryption of data files accessible to the leaving
user, and may need update of secret keys for all the remaining users. If all these tasks are
performed by the data owner himself/herself, it would introduce a heavy computation overhead
on him/her and may also require the data owner to be always online. To resolve this challenging
issue, our proposed scheme enables the data owner to delegate tasks of data file re-encryption
and user secret key update to cloud servers without disclosing data contents or user access
privilege information. We achieve our design goals by exploiting a novel cryptographic
primitive, namely key policy attribute-based encryption
1.1 MODELS AND ASSUMPTIONS
1.1.1 System Models
Similar to , we assume that the system is composed of the following parties: the Data Owner,
many Data Consumers, many Cloud Servers, and a Third Party Auditor if necessary. To access
data files shared by the data owner, Data Consumers, or users for brevity, download data files of
their interest from Cloud Servers and then decrypt. Neither the data owner nor users will be
always online. They come online just on the necessity basis. For simplicity, we assume that the
only access privilege for users is data file reading. Extending our proposed scheme to support
data file writing is trivial by asking the data writer to sign the new data file on each update as
does. From now on, we will also call data files by files for brevity. Cloud Servers are always
online and operated by the Cloud Service Provider (CSP). They are assumed to have abundant
storage capacity and computation power. The Third Party Auditor is also an online party which is
used for auditing every file access event. In addition, we also assume that the data owner can not
only store data files but also run his own code on Cloud Servers to manage his data files. This
assumption coincides with the unified ontology of cloud computing
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1.1.2 Security Models
In this work, we just consider Honest but Curious Cloud Servers as does. That is to say, Cloud
Servers will follow our proposed protocol in general, but try to find out as much secret
information as possible based on their inputs. More specifically, we assume Cloud Servers are
more interested in file contents and user access privilege information than other secret
information. Cloud Servers might collude with a small number of malicious users for the purpose
of harvesting file contents when it is highly beneficial. Communication channel between the data
owner/users and Cloud Servers are assumed to be secured under existing security protocols such
as SSL. Users would try to access files either within or outside the scope of their access
privileges. To achieve this goal, unauthorized users may work independently or cooperatively. In
addition, each party is preloaded with a public/private key pair and the public key can be easily
obtained by other parties when necessary.
1.1.3 Design Goals
Our main design goal is to help the data owner achieve fine-grained access control on files stored
by Cloud Servers. Specifically, we want to enable the data owner to enforce a unique access
structure on each user, which precisely designates the set of files that the user is allowed to
access. We also want to prevent Cloud Servers from being able to learn both the data file
contents and user access privilege information. In addition, the proposed scheme should be able
to achieve security goals like user accountability and support basic operations such as user
grant/revocation as a general one-to-many communication system would require. All these
design goals should be achieved efficiently in the sense that the system is scalable.
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Chapter 2
LITURATURE SURVEY
The literature survey contains study of different access control mechanism for cloud computing.
Mainly we have focused on Attribute based access control, role based access control, Identity
based encryption, Attribute based encryption and Role based encryption. Following table gives a
list of papers that we have surveyed. Here we have listed out some characteristics of access
control and encryption schema after surveying above papers.
The characteristics of an Ideal Access control and Encryption Schema:
Data confidentiality:
Data is get encrypted before uploading to the cloud, so unauthorized user of the cloud cannot
know the information about data stored on cloud. Only authorized users, those who are having
decryption key can access the data.
Fine-grained access control:
A different user from the same group gets the different access right. So users belongs to the same
group can access the different data according to his access rights.
Scalability:
When the number of users of the system increases it may effect on the system performance. So
the performance of the system is not get affected by increased numbers of authorized users.
Flexibility:
Flexibility of the cloud allows companies to adjust to any problems that may occur during day-
to-day operations. It also allows using extra resources at peak times, to satisfy consumer
demands.
Security:
While updating login credentials for example password or for requesting extra attributes. We
must ensure that only valid user is performing those operations. As well as system must provide
security from different attacks like session hijacking, session fixation etc.
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A. Identity Based Encryption
Identity Based Encryption was proposed for cipher text security and it is a type of public key
encryption. In this schema, user’s public key is nothing but unique information about user’s
identity such as email id and user’s private key is generated by using the known identity of the
user. As a result user can encrypt message without prior distribution of keys between
participants. This schema is extremely useful where pre-distribution of keys is infeasible or
inconvenient due to technical restraints. The steps involved in this Identity Based Encryption are
given below:
Setup algorithm: Private Key Generator (PKG) executes this setup algorithm once to create IBE
environment. This algorithm takes security parameters as a input and generates:
-A set of system parameters P
-A master key Km
Private Key Generation algorithm: When user sends request for his private key then PKG
executes this private key generation algorithm. It requires system parameters P, master key Km
and user ID and gives private key d for user identity ID.
Encryption algorithm: This Algorithm takes system parameters P, message m and users ID and
it generates encrypted message for a particular user having identity is ID .
Decryption algorithm: This algorithm accepts private key d, system parameters p and encrypted
message c and retrieves original message m.
B. Attribute Based Encryption
The main goal of attribute based encryption[2] proposed by Sahai and Waters is to provide
security and access control. This schema having trusted authority, data owner and data user. Role
of trusted authority is to generate keys for both data user and data owner to encrypt and decrypt
the message. In Attribute Based Encryption cipher text is not only encrypted for a single user.
The drawback of attribute based encryption scheme is that data owner needs to use each user's
public key to encrypt data.
Sahai and Waters proposed the concept of Key policy ABE, which is enhancement of ABE and
CPABE[2]. KP-ABE is the dual to CP-ABE in the sense that an access policy is encoded into the
users secret key and a ciphertext is computed with respect to a set of attributes,In ciphertext-
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policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) a user’s private-key is related to the set of attributes
and a ciphertext stipulates an access policy over a defined attributes within the system. A user
will be able to decrypt a ciphertext, if and only if his attributes satisfy the policy of the respective
ciphertext.
C. Role Based Access Control
In RBAC access of resources is depends on the role which is assigned to the user. In this
framework access is nothing but ability of an individual user to perform different operations such
as create view and modify a file. Roles are depends on authority and responsibility within the
organization. Various roles are created for an organization and permissions to perform specific
operation are assigned to specific role. RBAC has been widely used, but has weaknesses: it is
labor-intensive and time-consuming to build a model instance, and a pure RBAC system lacks
flexibility to efficiently adapt to changing users, objects, and securitypolicies. Particularly, it is
impractical to manually make (and maintain) user to role assignments and role to permission
assignments in industrial context characterized by a large number of users and/or security
objects.
Figure.2.1 Role Based Access Control
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D. Attribute Based Access Control
In attribute based access control[3] each user is associated with finite set of attributes. Data
owner assigns attributes to the particular user by considering type of user. Whenever user logins
and request for data, the user can access only assigned attributes .Set of attributes defines the
access control.
Figure.2.2 Attribute Based Access Control
E. Hybrid Access Control (ABAC+RBAC)
Combining role-based access control and attribute based access control is rising as a promising
paradigm. In this schema we are combining role based access control with attribute based access
control to get advantages of both. In this proposed schema we are considering three approaches
to use role based access control and attribute based access control.
Dynamic roles
Attributed based
Role based
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Figure.2.3 Hybrid access control
Dynamic roles:
In this first approach we are considering both role based access with attribute driven. As we are
considering fine grained access control, using this we can assign particular role with some extra
attributes to the user. And by providing decryption key user can access data which is assigned to
that particular role as well as extra attributes. If any user request extra attributes than the role
assigned then we will create dynamic role for that user and depending on the trust value of the
user we are assigning extra attributes to that user.
Attribute Based:
Second approach is Attribute based, in this attributes are assigned to user which not from a single
role. So in this case here we are using attribute based access control. So users can access different
attributes related to the different roles.
Role Based:
The third option simply follows role based access control, in which roles are assigned to the users
and depends on which role is assigned to that user attributes are accessible to that user.
These attribute-based policies bring to RBAC the advantages of ABAC: they are easy to
construct and easy to familiarize to changes. Using this mechanism in large scale applications we
can problem of permission assignment. This model is motivated by the characteristics and
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requirements of industrial control systems, and reflects in part certain approaches and practices
common in the industry.
F. Hierarchical Attribute and Role based access control
In HASBE [4] schema, hierarchical user structure is used with ASBE.HASBE schema is based
on attribute based access control. In our proposed schema, we are using hybrid access control to
get the advantages of both attribute based access control as well as role based access control.
Figure.5 shows hierarchical structure of system users using role and trust management. Our
system model consists of a trusted authority, multiple domain authorities, and numerous users
corresponding to data owners and data consumers. The trusted authority is responsible for
generating and distributing system parameters and root master keys as well as authorizing the
top-level domain authorities.
Figure.2.4 Hierarchical system users, Role and Trust management.
Trust Management:
Trust management is mechanism used while assigning extra attributes to the user. When user
requests for extra attributes than assigned attributes in that case higher authority will check the
trust value of the that user. If trust value is above threshold value then attributes are get assigned
to the user otherwise attributes are not assigned to the user. Trust management helps to the data
owner to assign new attributes by considering trust value.
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Chapter 3
Software and Hardware Requirement Specification
3.1 HARDWARE DESCRIPTION
The selection of hardware is very important in the existence and proper working of any
software. When selecting hardware, the size and requirements are also important.
Minimum Requirements:
Processor : Pentium II class, 450MHz
RAM : 128MB
Hard Disk Drive : 3GB
Video : 800X600, 256 colors
CD-ROM : Required
The proposed System is developed on:
Processor : INTEL Pentium 4
RAM : 512MB
Hard Disk Drive : 40GB
Key Board : Standard 101/102 or Digi Sync Family
Monitor : Display Panel (1024 X 764)
Display Adapter : Trident Super VGA
Network Adapter : SMC Ethernet Card Elite 16 Ultra
Mouse : Logitech Serial Mouse
3.1 SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION
Operating System : Windows XP
Front- End : C#. NET with ASP. NET
Back- End : MS SQL SERVER 2005 EXPRESS
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Chapter 4
ARCHITECTURE
We consider a cloud data system consisting of data owners, data users, Cloud Servers, and a third
Party Auditor. A data owner stores his sensitive data on Cloud Servers. Users are issued
attributes. To access the remote stored data files shared by the data owner, users need to
download the data files from the Cloud Servers. For simplicity, we assume that the only access
privilege for users is data file reading. Cloud Servers are always online and operated by Cloud
Service Provider (CSP). The Third Party Auditor is also an always online party which audits
every file access event. In addition, we also assume that the data owner can store data files
besides running his own code on Cloud Servers to manage his data files.
Figure 4.1 Architecture of cloud computing
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Chapter 5
MODULE DESCRIPTION
5.1 Key Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (KP-ABE)
KP-ABE is a public key cryptography primitive for one-to-many communications. In KP-ABE,
data are associated with attributes for each of which a public key component is defined. The
encryptor associates the set of attributes to the message by encrypting it with the corresponding
public key components. Each user is assigned an access structure which is usually defined as an
access tree over data attributes, i.e., interior nodes of the access tree are threshold gates and leaf
nodes are associated with attributes. User secret key is defined to reflect the access structure so
that the user is able to decrypt a ciphertext if and only if the data attributes satisfy his access
structure. A KP-ABE scheme is composed of four algorithms which can be defined as follows:
5.1.1 Setup
This algorithm takes as input a security parameter κ and the attribute universe U = {1, 2, . . .,N}
of cardinality N. It defines a bilinear group G1 of prime order p with a generator g, a bilinear map
e : G1 × G1 → G2 which has the properties of bilinearity, computability, and non-degeneracy.
It returns the public key PK as well as a system master key MK as follows
PK = (Y, T1, T2, . . . , TN)
MK = (y, t1, t2, . . . , tN)
where Ti ∈ G1 and ti ∈ Zp are for attribute i, 1 ≤ i ≤ N, and Y ∈ G2 is another public key
component. We have Ti = gti and Y = e(g, g)y, y ∈ Zp. While PK is publicly known to all the
parties in the system, MK is kept as a secret by the authority party.
5.1.2 Encryption
This algorithm takes a message M, the public key PK, and a set of attributes I as input. It outputs
the ciphertext E with the following format:
E = (I, ˜ E, {Ei}i ∈ I )
where ˜E = MYs, Ei = Ts
i , and s is randomly chosen from Zp.
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5.1.3 Key Generation
This algorithm takes as input an access tree T, the master key MK, and the public key PK. It
outputs a user secret key SK as follows. First, it defines a random polynomial pi(x) for each node
i of T in the top-down manner starting from the root node r.
For each non-root node j, pj(0) = pparent(j)(idx(j)) where parent(j) represents j’s parent
and idx(j) is j’s unique index given by its parent. For the root node r, pr(0) = y. Then it outputs
SK as follows.
SK = {ski}i ∈ L
where L denotes the set of attributes attached to the leaf nodes of T and ski = g pi(0) ti .
5.1.4 Decryption
This algorithm takes as input the ciphertext E encrypted under the attribute set I, the user’s secret
key SK for access tree T, and the public key PK. It first computes e(Ei, ski) = e(g, g)pi(0)s for
leaf nodes. Then, it aggregates these pairing results in the bottom-up manner using the
polynomial interpolation technique. Finally, it may recover the blind factor Y s = e(g, g)ys and
output the message M if and only if I satisfies T.
5.2 Proxy Re-Encryption (PRE)
Proxy Re-Encryption (PRE) is a cryptographic primitive in which a semi-trusted proxy is able to
convert a ciphertext encrypted under Alice’s public key into another ciphertext that can be
opened by Bob’s private key without seeing the underlying plaintext. More formally, a PRE
scheme allows the proxy, given the proxy re-encryption key rka↔b, to translate ciphertexts
under public key pka into ciphertexts under public key pkb and vise versa.
5.1 An examplary case in the healthcare scenario
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5.2.1 OUR PROPOSED SCHEME
5.2.1.1 Main Idea
In order to achieve secure, scalable and fine-grained access control on outsourced data in the
cloud, we utilize and uniquely combine the following three advanced cryptograhphic techniques:
KP-ABE, PRE and lazy re-encryption. More specifically, we associate each data file with a set of
attributes, and assign each user an expressive access structure which is defined over these
attributes. To enforce this kind of access control, we utilize KP-ABE to escort data encryption
keys of data files. Such a construction enables us to immediately enjoy fine-grainedness of access
control. However, this construction, if deployed alone, would introduce heavy computation
overhead and cumbersome online burden towards the data owner, as he is in charge of all the
operations of data/user management. Specifically, such an issue is mainly caused by the
operation of user revocation, which inevitabily requires the data owner to re-encrypt all the data
files accessible to the leaving user, or even needs the data owner to stay online to update secret
keys for users. To resolve this challenging issue and make the construction suitable for cloud
computing, we uniquely combine PRE with KP-ABE and enable the data owner to delegate most
of the computation intensive operations to Cloud Servers without disclosing the underlying file
contents.
Such a construction allows the data owner to control access of his data files with a minimal
overhead in terms of computation effort and online time, and thus fits well into the cloud
environment. Data confidentiality is also achieved since Cloud Servers are not able to learn the
plaintext of any data file in our construction. For further reducing the computation overhead on
Cloud Servers and thus saving the data owner’s investment, we take advantage of the lazy re-
encryption technique and allow Cloud Servers to “aggregate” computation tasks of multiple
system operations. As we will discuss in section V-B, the computation complexity on Cloud
Servers is either proportional to the number of system attributes, or linear to the size of the user
access structure/tree, which is independent to the number of users in the system. Scalability is
thus achieved. In addition, our construction also protects user access privilege information
against Cloud Servers. Accoutability of user secret key can also be achieved by using an
enhanced scheme of KP-ABE.
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5.2.1.2 Definition and Notation
For each data file the owner assigns a set of meaningful attributes which are necessary for access
control. Different data files can have a subset of attributes in common. Each attribute is
associated with a version number for the purpose of attribute update as we will discuss later.
Cloud Servers keep an attribute history list AHL which records the version evolution history of
each attribute and PRE keys used. In addition to these meaningful attributes, we also define one
dummy attribute, denoted by symbol AttD for the purpose of key management. AttD is required
to be included in every data file’s attribute set and will never be updated. The access structure of
each user is implemented by an access tree. Interior nodes of the access tree are threshold gates.
Leaf nodes of the access tree are associated with data file attributes. For the purpose of key
management, we require the root node to be an AND gate (i.e., n-of-n threshold gate) with one
child being the leaf node which is associated with the dummy attribute, and the other child node
being any threshold gate. The dummy attribute will not be attached to any other node in the
access tree. Fig.3.1 illustrates our definitions by an example. In addition, Cloud Servers also keep
a user list UL which records IDs of all the valid users in the system. Table 3.1 gives the
description of notation to be used in our scheme.
Table 5.1 Notation used in our scheme description
Notation Description
PK,MK system public key and master key
Ti public key component for attribute i
ti master key component for attribute i
SK user secret key
ski user secret key component for attribute i
Ei ciphertext component for attribute i
I attribute set assigned to a data file
DEK symmetric data encryption key of a data file
P user access structure
LP set of attributes attached to leaf nodes of P
AttD the dummy attribute
UL the system user list
AHLi attribute history list for attribute i
rki↔i_ proxy re-encryption key for attribute i from
its current version to the updated version i’
δO,X the data owner’s signature on message X
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ALGORITHM
Key Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (KP-ABE):
public static void AssignParameter()
{
const int PROVIDER_RSA_FULL = 1;
const string CONTAINER_NAME = "SpiderContainer";
CspParameters cspParams;
cspParams = new CspParameters(PROVIDER_RSA_FULL);
cspParams.KeyContainerName = CONTAINER_NAME;
cspParams.Flags = CspProviderFlags.UseMachineKeyStore;
cspParams.ProviderName = "Microsoft Strong Cryptographic Provider";
rsa = new RSACryptoServiceProvider(cspParams);
}
public static string EncryptData(string data2Encrypt)
{
AssignParameter();
StreamReader reader = new
StreamReader(@"E:VisualStudio2008cloudcomputingpublickey.xml");
string publicOnlyKeyXML = reader.ReadToEnd();
rsa.FromXmlString(publicOnlyKeyXML);
reader.Close();
//read plaintext, encrypt it to ciphertext
byte[] plainbytes =
System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(data2Encrypt);
byte[] cipherbytes = rsa.Encrypt(plainbytes,false);
return Convert.ToBase64String(cipherbytes);
}
public static void NewSecretKey()
{
AssignParameter();
//provide public and private RSA params
StreamWriter writer = new
StreamWriter(@"E:VisualStudio2008cloudcomputingprivatekey.xml");
string publicPrivateKeyXML = rsa.ToXmlString(true);
writer.Write(publicPrivateKeyXML);
writer.Close(); //provide public only RSA params
writer = new
StreamWriter(@"E:VisualStudio2008cloudcomputingpublickey.xml");
string publicOnlyKeyXML = rsa.ToXmlString(false);
writer.Write(publicOnlyKeyXML);
writer.Close();
}
public static string DecryptData(string data2Decrypt)
{
AssignParameter();
byte[] getpassword = Convert.FromBase64String(data2Decrypt);
StreamReader reader = new
StreamReader(@"E:VisualStudio2008cloudcomputingprivatekey.xml");
string publicPrivateKeyXML = reader.ReadToEnd();
rsa.FromXmlString(publicPrivateKeyXML);
reader.Close();
//read ciphertext, decrypt it to plaintext
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byte[] plain = rsa.Decrypt(getpassword,false);
return System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(plain);
}
Proxy Re-Encryption (PRE)
AssignParameter();
StreamReader reader = new
StreamReader(@"E:VisualStudio2008securecloudcomputingpublickey.xml");
string publicOnlyKeyXML = reader.ReadToEnd();
rsa.FromXmlString(publicOnlyKeyXML);
reader.Close();
//read plaintext, encrypt it to ciphertext
byte[] plainbytes =
System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes((string)Session["message"]);
byte[] cipherbytes = rsa.Encrypt(plainbytes, false);
for (int x = 0; x < cipherbytes.Length; x++)
{
sb.Append(cipherbytes[x].ToString() + "<br>");
}
Label1.Text = Convert.ToBase64String(cipherbytes);
sb.Append(Label1.Text);
Literal1.Text = Convert.ToString(sb);
}
public static void AssignParameter()
{
const int PROVIDER_RSA_FULL = 1;
const string CONTAINER_NAME = "SpiderContainer";
CspParameters cspParams;
cspParams = new CspParameters(PROVIDER_RSA_FULL);
}
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Chapter 7
ANALYSIS OF OUR PROPOSED SCHEME
7.1 Security Analysis
We first analyze security properties of our proposed scheme, starting with the following
immediately available properties.
1) Fine-grainedness of Access Control: In our proposed scheme, the data owner is able to
define and enforce expressive and flexible access structure for each user. Specifically, the access
structure of each user is defined as a logic formula over data file attributes, and is able to
represent any desired data file set.
2) User Access Privilege Confidentiality: Our proposed scheme just discloses the leaf node
information of a user access tree to Cloud Servers. As interior nodes of an access tree can be any
threshold gates and are unknown to Cloud Servers, it is hard for Cloud Servers to recover the
access structure and thus derive user access privilege information.
3) User Secret Key Accountability: This property can be immediately achieved by using the
enhanced construction of KP-ABE which can be used to disclose the identities of key abusers.
Now we analyze data confidentiality of our proposed scheme by giving a cryptographic security
proof.
4) Data Confidentiality: We analyze data confidentiality of our proposed scheme by comparing
it with an intuitive scheme in which data files are encrypted using symmetric DEKs, and DEKs
are direclty encrypted using standard KP-ABE. Assuming the symmetric key algorithm is secure,
e.g., using standard symmtric key algorithm such as AES, security of this intuitive scheme is
merely relied on the security of KP-ABE. Actually, the standard KP-ABE is provably secure
under the attribute-based Selective-Set model given the Decisional Bilinear Diffie-Hellman
(DBDH) problem is hard. Therefore, the intuitive scheme is secure under the same model. Our
goal is to show that our proposed scheme is as secure as the intuitive scheme. As compared to the
intuitive scheme, our scheme discloses the following extra information to Cloud Servers: a
partial set of user secret key components (except for the one for the dummy attribute which is
required for each decryption), and the proxy re-encryption keys
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7.2 Performance Analysis
This section numerically evaluates the performance of our proposed scheme in terms of the
computation overhead introduced by each operation as well as the ciphertext size.
1)Computation Complexity: We analyze the computation complexity for the following six
operations: system setup, new file creation, file deletion, new user grant, user revocation, and file
access. System Setup In this operation, the data owner needs to define underlying bilinear
groups, and generate PK and MK. As is described in Section III-A, the main computation
overhead for the generation of PK and MK is introduced by the N group multiplication
operations on G1. New File Creation The main computation overhead of this operation is the
encryption of the data file using the symmetric DEK as well as the encryption of the DEK using
KPABE. The complexity of the former depends on the size of the underlying data file and
inevitable for any cryptographic method. The computation overhead for the latter consists of |I|
multiplication operations on G1 and 1 multiplication operation on G2, where I denotes the
attribute set I of the data file. All these operations are for the data owner. File Deletion This
operation just involves the data owner and Cloud Servers. The former needs to compute one
signature and the latter verifies this signature. New User Grant This operation is executed
interactively by the data owner, Cloud Servers, and the user. The computation overhead for the
data owner is mainly composed of the generation of the user secret key and encryption of the
user secret key using the user’s public key. The former accounts for |L| multiplication operations
on G1, where L denotes the set of leaf nodes of the access tree. The latter accounts for one PKC
operation, e.g., RSA encryption. The main overhead for Cloud Servers is one signature
verification. The user needs to do two PKC operations, one for data decryption and the other for
signature verification. User Revocation This operation is composed of two stages. The second
stage can actually be amortized as the file access operation. Here we just counts the operation
overhead for the first stage. That for the second stage will be included in the file access
operation. The first stage occurs between the data owner and Cloud Servers. The computation
overhead for the data owner is caused by the execution of AMinimalSet and AUpdateAtt as well
as the generation of his signatures for the public key components.
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The complexity of algorithm AMinimalSet is actually mainly contributed by the CNF conversion
operation which can be efficiently realized by existing algorithms such as (with the complexity
linear to the size of the access structure). Assuming the size of the minimal set returned by
AMinimalSet is D, D ≤ N, the computation overhead for AUpdateAtt is mainly contributed by D
multiplication operations on G1. In addition, the data owner also needs to compute D signatures
on public key components. The computation overhead on Cloud Servers in this stage is
negligible. When counting the complexity of user revocation, we use N instead of the size of the
access structure since in practical scenarios AMinimalSet is very efficient if we limit the size of
access structure (without affecting system scalability), but each signature or multiplication
operation on G1 is expensive. File Access This operation occurs between Cloud Servers and the
user. For Cloud Servers, the main computation overhead is caused by the execution of algorithm
AUpdateSK and algorithm AUpdateAtt4File. In the worst case, the algorithm AUpdateSK would
be called |L|−1 times, which represents |L|−1 multiplication operations on G1. Each execution of
the algorithm AUpdateAtt4File accounts for one multiplication operation on G1. In the worst
case, Cloud Servers need to call AUpdateAtt4File N times per file access. Our lazy re encryption
solution will greatly reduce the average system wide call times of these two algorithms from
statistical point of view. File decryption needs |L| bilinear pairing in the worst case. Table.7
summarizes the computation complexity of our proposed scheme.
Operation Complexity
File Creation
File Deletion
User Grant
User Revocation
File Access
O(|I|)
O(1)
O(|L|)
O(N)
O(max(|L|,N))
Table 7.1
7.3 SYSTEM ANALYSIS
7.3.1 Existing System:
Our existing solution applies cryptographic methods by disclosing data decryption keys
only to authorized users. These solutions inevitably introduce a heavy computation overhead on
the data owner for key distribution and data management when fine grained data access control is
desired, and thus do not scale well.
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7.3.2 Proposed System:
In order to achieve secure, scalable and fine-grained access control on outsourced data in
the cloud, we utilize and uniquely combine the following three advanced cryptographic
techniques:
Key Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (KP-ABE).
Proxy Re-Encryption (PRE)
Lazy re-encryption
Figure 7.1 SYSTEM ANALYSIS
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Chapter 8
SYSTEM DESIGN
From the above project we have to Design some UML diagrams such as Use Case diagram,
Sequence diagram, Class diagram, Data Flow Diagram, E-R Diagram
USE CASE DIAGRAM:
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SNAPSHOTS
When the project are running the page will be given as, First the owner has login on the cloud
server and next file will uploaded on to the cloud server.
Figure 9.1 Start page of owner login
File upload on to the cloud
Figure 9.2 Upload file for encrypted data
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By next the user can access the file from the cloud server firstly he has registration to the access
point and then the user can have a public key and master key from that algorithm
Figure 9.3 Registration for user
After registration success the cloud server sends secret key to the user mail id.
Figure 9.4 Registration success after get secret key
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After the registration process the get the secret key and then he has upload file to cloud which by
he has given from cloud server.
Figure 9.5 Send File to cloud
The file will selected from there cloud which has shown by the server.
Figure 9.6 Select File From Cloud
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The will send to cloud then, using secret key for the download the file from the cloud.
Figure 9.7 Enter Secret Key
Download the file
Figure 9.8 Download Path
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Database table:
Figure 9.9(a) Database table
User registration detail data:
Figure 9.9(b) Database table
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Chapter 10
ADVANTAGES
Low initial capital investment
Shorter start-up time for new services
Lower maintenance and operation costs
Higher utilization through virtualization
Easier disaster recovery
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DISADVANTAGES
Software update could change security settings, assigning privileges too low
Security concerns
Control of your data/system by third-party
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Chapter 12
CONCLUSION
This project constructs an ABE based cryptography scheme for implementing fine-grained access
control for cloud computing. The constructed scheme enables user accountability, which can be
used to prevent illegal key usages. we identify the need for fine-grained access control in cloud
computing. We achieve user accountability by inserting user specific information into users’
attribute private keys. We perform a comprehensive security analysis with respect to data
confidentiality and fine-grained access control. In this paper we propose a scheme to achieve this
goal by exploiting KPABE and uniquely combining it with techniques of proxy re-encryption
and lazy re-encryption. Moreover, our proposed scheme can enable the data owner to delegate
most of computation overhead to powerful cloud servers. Confidentiality of user access privilege
and user secret key accountability can be achieved. Formal security proofs show that our
proposed scheme is secure under standard cryptographic models.
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