OB-MECC: An Efficient Confidentiality and Security Enhancement for Cloud Storage System

Abstract

Cloud computing (CC) is one amongst the developing technologies, which get more attention from academia as well as industries. It offers diverse benefits like sharing computing resources, service flexibility, reducing costs, etc. The Cloud Services Provider (CSP) is accountable for the data that are delivered to the cloud. The threat of seeing the stored data and using sensitive raw data by strangers is the main barrier in the utilization of cloud services. So, Data Security (DS) along with privacy is the chief issue, which is an obstacle while adopting the CC. Countless techniques are existent for ensuring data confidentiality, but they do not completely give protection to the data. To trounce these drawbacks, this paper introduces the Obfuscation (OB) based Modified Elliptical Curve Cryptography (MECC) algorithm for protecting data as of malicious attacks, which is termed as OB-MECC. Primarily, the proposed method obfuscates the data before they are uploaded to the cloud. For the OB of the data, the proposed work employs methods like substitution cipher (SC), position update, Ceaser cipher, binary conversion, 8-bit binary conversion, decimal(), two complex(), and ASCII(). Then, encryption of the obfuscated data is done with the utilization of the MECC algorithm. After encryption, the data on the cloud is retrieved. The retrieved data is then decrypted by reversing the OB and encryption process to get the actual data. The outcomes corroborate that the confidentiality and security level are maximum for the proposed OB-MECC when contrasted to the existing approaches.

Augmented security for healthcare data using obfuscation and elliptic curve cryptography algorithm in health cloud environment

“…Furthermore, a lightweight auditing procedure 29 was implemented to verify the integrity of outsourced data. The modified ECC 30 was utilized for decryption process after retrieving the uploaded data from the cloud. Moreover, it enhances the confidentiality of the data and reduces the size of a file.…”