Towards DNA based data security in the cloud computing environment

Abstract

Nowadays, data size is increasing day by day from gigabytes to terabytes or even petabytes, mainly because of the evolution of a large amount of real-time data. Most of the big data is transmitted through the internet and they are stored on the cloud computing environment. As cloud computing provides internet-based services, there are many attackers and malicious users. They always try to access user’s confidential big data without having the access right. Sometimes, they replace the original data by any fake data. Therefore, big data security has become a significant concern recently. Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) computing is an advanced emerged field for improving data security, which is based on the biological concept of DNA. A novel DNA based data encryption scheme has been proposed in this paper for the cloud computing environment. Here, a 1024-bit secret key is generated based on DNA computing, user’s attributes and Media Access Control (MAC) address of the user, and decimal encoding rule, American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) value, DNA bases and complementary rule are used to generate the secret key that enables the system to protect against many security attacks. Experimental results, as well as theoretical analyses, show the efficiency and effectivity of the proposed scheme over some well-known existing schemes.