TCLOUD: A Trusted Storage Architecture for Cloud Computing

Abstract

The cloud storage provides a least cost means of data storage for the small and large enterprises across the globe. But the main barricade to wide spread adoption of cloud storage is the lake of trust in the technology by its user. The data is stored on multiple servers and the location is concealed from the customers and they are no more in control of the data. This distinctive feature of the cloud storage presents many security and trust challenges. In this paper we present a trusted architecture of cloud data storage. The architecture presents a unique way of secure storage and accessing of data from the cloud data center. It also ensured that only authorized user will be able to access the data. Additionally, if there is any violation of the security parameter at the data center, the data will still be safe i.e. the data will be stored in encrypted form.