Enhancing Data Security and Access Control in Cloud Environment using Modified Attribute Based Encryption Mechanism

Abstract

Social networking and growing popularity of cloud services have made everyone to communicate each other in an easiest way. File sharing and distribution are the frequently used services provided by cloud service providers, although these facilities reduce cost of data sharing but at the same time data security and access control is the major problem. Many renowned service providers have faced the challenges to secure data and provide better access control, and we know once the data is leaked we cannot recover the data loss. Thus in order to ensure better security we need for focus on the two major problems, and those are access control and encryption policy. Cipher text policy attribute based encryption is the most effective solution for access control in real time scenarios where owner can actually decide the access rights for the end-user, but it comes with key escrow problem. We are proposing our modified escrow-free key issuing protocol to solve the problem of key escrow and our Modified Attribute Based Encryption scheme to achieve all security requirements to get a robust and secure system. Further we evaluate our model on the basis of results and lastly we conclude the paper.