A Secure Cloud Storage System with increased Availability and Robustness
- 1Anna University Chennai, Department of Pervasive Computing Technology, University College of Engineering, BIT Campus, Tiruchirappalli. , IN
- 2Anna University Chennai, Department of Pervasive Computing Technology, University College of Engineering, BIT Campus, Tiruchirappalli. , IN
A cloud storage system is a collection of storage servers capable of storing huge volumes of data. Security is the main issue in this system of storing a data in third party cloud storage area. To overcome this issue by untrusted third-party data being stored should be secured while storing data in the storage server. This paper explains the way of storing data which increases the availability of data and thus robustness of the system. It also describes the additional functionalities performed by servers like encoding of data and proxy re-encryption when data forwarding required which minimizes interaction of user on processing data. This method integrates an encryption, encoding and proxy re-encryption scheme which achieves data confidentiality and integrity. The availability of data is promised till the single storage server is available and thus robustness of the system will be increased. The implementation will be done using the Google app - engine.
Conclusion
This paper proposed a way of storing data in a cloud storage system such that the computation cost of storing data is reduced when compared with other previous approaches. Also the availability of data is sustained until one storage server is available. This increases the robustness of the storage system. Though this approach has several advantages still there is some drawbacks present. Key servers meant for key management is not maintained well in terms of security. The private keys of all users are available with those key servers and security breach can be occurred when hacking those key servers. Future works will be focussed on strengthening key server security and also designing different approaches for key management functionality.
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Keywords: encryption, encoding, proxy re-encryption, storage servers, key servers
Citation: Premkumar M*, Premkumar M, Premkumar M, Premkumar M ( 0), A Secure Cloud Storage System with increased Availability and Robustness. , 1(2): 1-5
Received: 01/06/2024; Accepted: 01/06/2024;
Published: 01/06/2024
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