An efficient and secure data storage in Mobile Cloud Computing through RSA and Hash function

Abstract

Main call for Cloud computing is that users only utilize what they required and only pay for what they really use. Mobile Cloud Computing refers to an infrastructure where data processing and storage can happen away from mobile device. Portio research estimates that mobile subscribers worldwide will reach 6.9 billion by the end of 2013 and 8 billion by the end of 2016. Ericsson also forecasts that mobile subscriptions will reach 9 billion by 2017. Due to increasing use of mobile devices the requirement of cloud computing in mobile devices arise, which gave birth to Mobile Cloud Computing. Mobile devices do not need to have large storage capacity and powerful CPU speed. Due to storing data on cloud there is an issue of data security. Because of the risk associated with data storage many IT professionals are not showing their interest towards Mobile Cloud Computing. To ensure the correctness of users' data in the cloud, we propose an effective mechanism with salient feature of data integrity and confidentiality. This paper proposed a mechanism which uses the concept of RSA algorithm, Hash function along with several cryptography tools to provide better security to the data stored on the mobile cloud.