Enhancing Secure Communication in the Cloud Through Blockchain Assisted-CP-DABE

Abstract

The use of encryption is essential to protect sensitive data, but it often poses challenges when it comes to locating and retrieving information without decryption. Searchable encryption provides an effective mechanism that achieves secure search over encrypted data. In this paper a new approach to address the fine-grained search and to protect sensitive data, Blockchain Assisted ciphertext policy decentralized attribute-based encryption (BA-CP-DABE) in cloud has been developed. The CP-DABE is employed to manage data access, secure key generation, while the immutability of blockchain ensures the confidentiality of ciphertext. By leveraging searchable encryption, it becomes possible to securely search encrypted data stored on the blockchain. Keywords are encrypted using attribute-based encryption and stored on a remote server, along with the corresponding ciphertext in the blockchain. One of the significant challenges in this approach is the assumptions-based technique i.e., bilinear mapping, which involves keyword ciphertext and trapdoor security. However, through extensive numerical experiments, the system has demonstrated its ability to generate key and trapdoor structures, as well as effectively find keywords within the encrypted data.