Enhanced Cloud Storage Encryption Standard for Security in Distributed Environments

Abstract

With the growing number of cloud users, shared data auditing is becoming increasingly important. However, these schemes have issues with the certificate management. Although there is a certificate-shared auditing scheme, it is ineffective in dealing with dynamic data and protecting data privacy. The verifier cannot access the data content to ensure data integrity due to security concerns. This paper proposes a novel technique to ensure the integrity and improve the access control. A novel enhanced storage retrieval mechanism is used to improve the performance of the cloud’s storage and retrieval mechanisms to achieve this. The technique is evaluated in concern of the upload, download, encryption, and decryption time. As the file size grows, so does the time it takes to upload it. Similarly, the time taken to encrypt files of various formats and sizes evidenced that it depends on the file size and format. Thus, the encryption time increases as the file sizes increases, demonstrating the performance of the proposed system.