Efficient and Secure Multi-Keyword Ranked Search and Group Data Sharing for Encrypted Cloud Data

Abstract

Nowadays due to the popularity of clouds and their quality services, many of the users such as organizations, industries as well as individuals are migrating towards the cloud to store their important, confidential data and get easy access to their data anywhere anytime over the internet. Different encryption techniques are employed in cloud computing to ensure data confidentiality, security, and privacy. This makes it harder for endusers to retrieve precise data. Due to the huge amount of data over the cloud and multiple data users, secure data storage and retrieval are required. So in this paper develop an efficient data group sharing and multi-keyword ranked search method for encrypted cloud data collection in this research work. The developed system is implemented using the El-Gamal cryptography algorithm to provide security through effective key generation techniques and encryption strategy. Here, a multi-owner data setting is used instead of a centralized data owner setting; each member of the system in one particular group gets equal rights for both searching and sharing functionality and this may increase system usability. By taking into consideration lots of data in the cloud, the vector space model and TF-IDF model are utilized and according to the cosine similarity score, the method generates a ranked multikeyword search result to deliver effective query result from numerous data and enhance secrecy in the situation of numerous data owners. In this system searching efficiency is improved by developing an index-based search structure. In the group, data can disperse with co-owners/users by developing a role-based access policy (RBAP), and a user revocation strategy is developed with low computation time as well as communication overhead. At last, the efficiency and security of a developed system are exhibited by broad exploratory assessment.