Security on mobile cloud computing using cipher text policy and attribute based encryption scheme

Abstract

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is a new paradigm that has been emerged by the advances in the Cloud Computing for Mobile devices to access Cloud services. The data security challenges against the data thefting, deleting, corrupting, or exploiting are existed as the data storage and access to/from the cloud has been most popular. In order to handle these data security issues in the cloud and to provide protection for the data, some innovative encryption methods have been developed. One of such encryption methods is Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) that has a more control on the data in cloud as which is accessed by whom. Since from the recent years, many of academic researchers have paying a widespread of attention on using advanced cryptographic techniques to securely store, process, also share data over the untrusted cloud environment. One of the promising cryptographic techniques which can solve the open challenge of regulating the fine-grained access control of important data over the distributed cloud is the Cipher text Policy – Attribute Based Encryption (CP-ABE). Therefore, a survey of work is presented in this paper on different CP-ABE methods for the secure mobile cloud computing architecture. This paper presents some works that are focused on secure data storing, accessing and sharing using CP-ABE methods over the untrusted cloud environments. All the works that are studied are analyzed and compared with each other in the results to find the best out of it.