An Improved Secure Key Generation Using Enhanced Identity-Based Encryption for Cloud Computing in Large-Scale 5G

Abstract

The demand of cloud computing and 5G networks has increased in the current scenario due to their attractive features and also the security related to the data over the cloud. In the context of cloud security, there is a number of computationally hard methods available. One of the most popular methods used to secure data over the cloud is the identity-based encryption (IBE). It is an access policy that allows only authorized users to access legible data in order to avoid a malicious attack. IBE comprises of four stages, namely, setup, key generation or extract, encryption, and decryption. Key generation is one of the important and time-consuming phases in which a security key is generated. It is a computational and decisional hard problem for generating unbreakable and nonderivable secure keys. This paper proposes an enhanced identity-based encryption approach where a secure key is generated using part of an identity bit string in order to avoid leakage of users’ identity even if an adversary or attacker decodes the key or encrypted data. Experiment results show that the prosed algorithm takes less time in the encryption and decryption as compared to the competitive approach named efficient selective-ID secure identity-based encryption approach. One of the most important features of the proposed approach is that it hides the user’s identity by using the Lagrange coefficient, which consists of a polynomial interpolation function. The security of the system depends on the hardness of computing the bilinear Diffie-Hellman problem.