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Accessing Data from Cloud using Cryptography

Preeti Jain1, Dr. BarjeshKochar2
Research Scholar, JNU, Jaipur1
Professor, IT Dept., JIMS, Rohini, New Delhi2
Abstract: The aura of cloud computing has
been touching hearts of many companies
and organization day by day. Being
flexible, scalable and easy to use plug in
play services, customers are getting
addicted to various cloud services. The
paper presents cryptography system that
uses encryption technique for assessing
data securely from public cloud
environment. Encryption involves transfer
of data into some coded cipher form that is
not understandable by local users located
on public clouds. Only data owner can
provide access to different users by
decrypting it with its unique password on
key.

access data any time without taking

Keywords: Cryptography, Encryption,

Decryption, public cloud and Hash
function

solution to this concern is described in

1. INTRODUCTION

decryption). In this process, data owner

With

tremendous

increase

in

latest

permission, then it is called private cloud.

If data center is accessed and managed by
cloud services providers like Google,
Amazon and usersare willing to use their
services by asking for permission then it is
called as public cloud. Hybrid cloud is
combination of either private or public
cloud. Ensuring data confidentiality and
authentication are one of major concerns
for public cloud environment. Customers
always suffer from fear that their data may
be accessed by intruders or attackers. The

following paper that employs use of

cryptographic process (encryption and

has

its

key

that

updates

data

technology trends, the consumption of

(encryption)and for accessing that data,

resources has been increase to great height.

users are required to enter decryption key.

Users are acquiring resources provided by

The remaining paper is organized as

cloud providers in order to perform task

follows. Section 2 presents previous

faster and increased efficiency rate. In

studies in context of cloud computing.

addition to this, cloud deployment models

Section

also exist that has some features. If data

cryptographic system. Section 4 presents

center is owned and managed by some

list of related works that have been done in

3deals

whit

proposed

community or customer and users can

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order to prove our system better. Section 5

concludes the given paper.

3. Comparison of existing works

Study

Features

2. LITERATURE SURVEY

System

Various studies have been lead by

researchers in context of security issue and

Ruj
et.al
[6]

schemes for achieving confidentiality.

Song et.al [1] revised encryption method
for securing data. They analyzed text by
text and encrypt them using key at client
site as well as server site. It is very time
consuming

process.

Proposed

Brinkman

et.al

[2]suggested idea of creating indexing on

Goikar
et.al
[18]

blocks of file and developed algorithm for

searching databases.Gohet.al [3] proposed
secure indexing model by using encryption
technique without involving use hash

Decentralized
process
to
access data.
No client
service
provider
awareness

Centralized

Uses
GPS
receiver
to
find location
of data and
decrypt it. If
location not
found,
then
data cannot be
accessed.

Uses

system

with

interoperability
between
and

client
service

providers.
hash

function

to

search for data

sequentially and
maps values to
different
locations.

function. Keu yang et.al [4] proposed data

data

access control mechanism for storing data

found at given

secured key. Alizarin et.al [5] have lead

location, then it

various studies in context of security issue

moves to next

of cloud computing. Ruj et.al [6] used

location

concept of decentralization in order to

than

access data from random users. But it may

process.

lead

to

risk

of

intruders

attackers.

Although cloud is best platform for storage

of resources but without its security it is of

Goh
et.al
[3]

no use. Cloud computing services must be

improved in legal protection also [7].
Boneh
et.al

Used trapdoor
to search for
data but not
suitable
for
multiple
keywords
search.
Performs
sequential

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If
not

rather

stopping

Handles
multiple
keyword
searches.

Performs

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[20]

search of data
by using bilinear maps.
Bi-linear
maps
has
disadvantage
that they may
point
to
multiple
locations with
same
time
periods.

sequential
search

using

The existing work employs use of

bi-linear maps to point data values

one-way
free

to different locations but at same

function

time. It leads to collision because it

that points to

may happen that second location is

multiple

already having data at same time.

collision
hash

locations

at

different

time

The generation of metadata has not

properly

utilized

as

it

lacks

encrypted data index file.

periods.

4. Flaws in the existing work

The existing work in context of accessing

5. PROPOSED
SYSTEM

data from cloud using cryptography

The system deals with owner/manager,

process has been mentioned in [3, 6, 18,

client

and 20]. The flaws in their works are as

(Google/yahoo). Client acts as interface

follows:

between owner and service provider. The

and

CRYPTOGRAPHIC

cloud

service

provider

proposed framework is required to keep

There is no centralized system

designed for interaction between
client and server and to prevent
data loss.

data protected from third parties and it

should reach at client site. Then client can
forward that data to cloud provider in
order to get original data. The detail layout

The process gets ceased if data is

is given below:-

not found or located at given

memory locations. It ceased due to
lack of one way hash function. It
would be better to employ use of
hash function for mapping data
values

at

different

memory

locations.

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Fig 2: Process of Indexing

Blocks of data stored as indexes on given
locations now, encrypted data values are
stored in index field. This encrypted data
is being sent to cloud service provider
stores data to various remote locations
hosted by different data centers. As soon
as data reaches provider, it generates index
of encrypted data at its site. This encrypted
data is being searched by different clients
Fig 1: Layout of proposed work

that are requesting for data. Then client

uses decryption key provided by data

6. Working

owner and access that matched encrypted

The data owner has right to send, manage

data.

and access data any time. Firstly, data is

being put in query to be sent to service
provider. It has to undergone through

7. How proposed system overcomes

process of encryption before data is being

existing flaws or advantages of proposed

sent to provider. Data owner has its

system

secrete key (K) that is used as identifier to

generate cipher text (codedtext) using

sent

process of encryption (E). Indexing is

untrusted
the

sites

process

by
of

encryption.

can be done using hash function. Hash

a service provider.

from

involving

being done to access data in less time. It

function maps value to different locations

The system tests malicious data

The

process

of

encryption

generates cipher text that is not

understood by third parties except
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data owner. Only data owner can

8. Conclusion and future scope

access that data because it has its

The paper presents a technique to achieve

own secret key (K).

secured

The system is centralized rather

environment.

than decentralized. It means client

that needs to be improved by cloud

and service providers maintain

standards. Various studies are going on

interoperability

regarding this. A cryptographic system has

securely.

If

to

access

system

is

data
made

data

from

public

cloud

Security is major concern

been proposed in following paper.

It

decentralized, then it might be

makes use of encryption when data is sent

possible that service providers keep

by owner to service provider at service

waiting for encrypted data which is

provider site. It uses one way hash

requested by client before.

function that helps in creating index of

The proposed system is able to

blocks of data at various remote location

handle multiple search keywords.

hosted by data centers for accessing this

If user enters two queries, they are

data,

being

for

maintains index of encrypted data at that

undergoing process of encryption.

time client request for data and if

Rather than generating hash index

searching data get matches with encrypted

for one query, it produces two hash

data, then client can access data using its

indices for two queries. If both

decryption key.

hash

put

into

functions

queue

map

to

same

locations in memory, then data at

that location is recorded with
different time period. Data with
earliest time is being accessed by
client firstly and its

cloud

service

provider

again

The proposed system can be made

interoperable with semantic web security
standards in which data can be accessed
using lightweight ontologys in machine
understandable format.

memory

location gets filled by other key

value.

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