A hybrid framework to enhance cloud security for storing and retrieving confidential data in clouds

Abstract

<p>The building pieces for creating a secure cloud framework for data exchange with authenticated and authorized users are ECC and ABAC. So, the goal of this study is to improve access control and encryption-related methods in order to increase security. The elliptic curve is a key component of the comparative study of cloud encryption and access control techniques. This research project’s main goal is to provide a security architecture that combines authenticated access with attribute-based access control and better elliptic curve encryption. The second goal is to provide a better mapping strategy with reduced time and space complexity for elliptic curve encoding from plain text. To boost the performance of the standard ECC, a thorough algorithm focusing on designing an improved mapping mechanism for encoding plain text to elliptic curve points with excellent security has been included. The strength of the security should not be sacrificed in order to reduce security measures’ overhead costs. ABE is regarded as an effective way for protecting cloud data, according to study results. Because to the use of complex pairing processes, the same is difficult to use. As a result, a hybrid approach using ECC and ABAC performs better to handle the increasing processing capacity.</p>