Capability Based Outsourced Data Access Control with Assured File Deletion and Efficient Revocation with Trust Factor in Cloud Computing

Abstract

Cloud computing has introduced a paradigm which support data outsourcing to third parties for processing using commodity clusters. It allows the owner to outsource sensitive data and share it with the authorized user while reducing the computation and management cost. Since owners store sensitive data over the cloud, the requirements of access control and data security have also been increasing. To alleviate all the problem requirements, the need has arisen for providing a safe, secure, and sound model. The existing solutions for these problems use pure cryptographic techniques, which increases the computation cost. In this article, the security problems are solved by using a trusted third party and a quorum of key managers. A service provider is responsible for capability-based access control to ensure that only authorized users will be able to access the data. Whenever any data revocation is required, the data owner simply updates this information to the master key manager to revoke a specific number of shares. The model for the proposed work has been presented and its analysis shows how it introduces security features.