Encryption as a service for securing data in mobile cloud computing

Abstract

Currently mobile devices like smartphones are equipped with high performance processors, memory, sensors and storage. Therefore they can do a lot of what traditional desktop and laptop computers do. Their emergence has led to many applications especially which are offered by the cloud computing. This technology is called mobile cloud computing. MCC combines the features of both mobile computing and cloud computing. Users of Mobile can get rich experience of various services from their own mobile applications that run on cloud servers. The only barrier which prevents those users to adopt mobile cloud computing is that there are risks in terms of security and privacy of the data and services. Because, mobile cloud computing has limitations in terms of data storage, bandwidth, heterogeneity, scalability, availability, reliability, and privacy [5]. So the security solution for it has become a research focus. In this paper, we are more interested in data security in mobile cloud computing environment. We propose a hybrid architecture based on Encryption as a Service. It empowers the cloud clients to be in control of their cryptographic operations and keys that they deploy in the cloud, independently of the cloud provider. Firstly, we outline cloud computing technology, then we explore mobile cloud computing environment and we analyze some encryption algorithms. Finally we propose our achitecure to solve the problem of privacy in MCC.