Biometric inspired homomorphic encryption algorithm for secured cloud computing

Abstract

Cloud computing widely uses resource sharing and computing framework over the Internet. Data security is the key objective while sharing data over untrusted environment. This paper presents a novel biometric inspired homomorphic encryption algorithm (BIHEA) for secured data/files transmission over hybrid cloud environment. The proposed algorithm encrypts the user data at run-time by providing the authorized user biometric-feature-based one time password. Every time a user is authenticated by a totally different one time password. The BIHEA provides a good solution to commonly identified theft seen in cloud environment like phishing, shoulder surfing.