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Securing Storage Data in Cloud Using RC5 Algorithm

Jay Singh
1
, Brajesh Kumar
2
, Asha Khatri
3

CDSE Indore
1,2
, MITM, Indore
3

jaysinghips@gmail.com
1
,brajesh_2012@yahoo.com
2
,ashakhatri@gmail.com
3


Abstract

Cloud Computing is technology for next generation
I nformation and Software enabled work that is
capable of changing the software working
environment. I t is interconnecting the large-scale
computing resources to effectively integrate, and to
computing resources as a service to users. Cloud
computing allows users to use applications without
installation any application and access their
personal files and application at any computer with
internet or intranet access. Cloud computing
effectively the actual separation of physical and
virtual services, a variety of business services
reduced costs, improved utilization of network
resources. Cloud computing is a technology that
uses the internet or intranet and central remote
servers to maintain the data and applications. This
technology allows for efficient computing by
centralizing storage, memory, processing and
bandwidth. Here Work is focuses on RC5
Encryption Algorithm for stored data in cloud.
Resulted encrypted method is secure and easy to
use; it is fulfilling the needs of cloud users and
providers.

Keywords

Cloud computing, security, Encryption, storage

1. Introduction

Cloud Computing is innovation that uses advanced
computational power and improved storage
capabilities. Cloud computing is a new processing
scheme in which computer processing is performed in
the network. This means that users need not concern
themselves with the processing details. Although
Cloud computing enables flexible and agile
computing which is impossible with existing systems.

2. Basic service Models

According to service model, cloud computing can be
categorized (as shown in Figure 1) into three main
categories:
i. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
ii. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
iii. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)










Figure 1: cloud model
3. Layers in Cloud
The Internet functions through a series of network
protocols that form a stack of layers, as shown in the
figure 2. Once an Internet connection is established
among several computers, it is possible to share
services within any one of the following layers
[Pana11].

CLIENT
APPLICATION
PLATFORM
INFRASTRUCTURE
SERVER

Figure 2: Cloud layer

4. Security as Major Issues

Infrastructure
(IaaS)
Plateform
(PaaS)
Software
(SaaS)
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To preventing the system from outside world, so that
no one can damage or change the system and system
can serve its services continuously. The most
damaging aspect is the loss of data and software.
There is different types of source are there, they can
damage like computer viruses, computer hacking and
denial of service attacks have become more common.
There are multiple security issues for cloud
computing and it encompasses many technologies
including networks, databases, operating systems,
virtualization, resource scheduling, transaction
management, load balancing, concurrency control
and memory management[Akhi11].

5. Information Security Issue of Cloud
Computing

There is a critical need to securely store, manage,
share and analyze massive amounts of data and to
improve the quality of services. Because of the
critical nature of the applications, it is important that
clouds to be secure. The major security challenge
with clouds is that the owner of the data may not
have control of where the data is placed [Chang10].
There are different Security Issues shown in figure 3.



Figure 3: Security Issues

6. Ensuring Data Security with
Encryption

One of the best ways to ensure confidential data is
protected in the cloud is to utilize encryption for data.
Almost all cloud service providers support encryption
for data storage, but few offer support for data at rest.
The cloud encryption capabilities of the service
provider need to match the level of sensitivity of the
data being hosted [Jian10].

Encryption plays a big role in fulfilment as many
policies require specific data elements to be
encrypted. This type of requirement is present in
GLBA, PCI DSS and HIPAA. The most important
guidance on encryption is publically available from
NIST 800-111 and FIPS-140-2. These standards can
help you evaluate the encryption capabilities of a
cloud provider for compliance with regulations. To
protect a users confidential data in the cloud,
encryption is a powerful tool that can be used
effectively. Only user can confidently utilize cloud
providers knowing that their confidential data is
protected by encryption.

7. Problems Definition

Cloud Storage system provides the user for safe and
consistent place to save valuable data and documents.
However, user's files are not encrypted on some open
source cloud storage systems, such as Hadoop and
Sector. In the past, there is no known way to
completely handle encrypted data, unless the cloud
data is only used for simple storage [Went12]. The
storage service provider can easily access the user's
files. This brings a big concern about user's privacy.
The user has no supreme control over the software
applications including secret data. User has to depend
on the providers action, maintenance and admin it.
The user does not have direct access to the software to
fix the problems while something goes wrong in any
application and its valuable data.

Proposed Solution

The use of RC5 algorithm for encryption, cloud
computing can be applied to the data transmission
security. Transmission of data will be encrypted,
even if the data is stolen, there is no corresponding
key cannot be restored. Only the user knows the key,
the clouds do not know the key. Also, because the
properties of encryption, the cloud can operate on
cipher text, thus avoiding the encrypted data to the
traditional efficiency of operation. User's privacy is
protected because user's files are encrypted in cloud
storage.

8. Deploying RC5 Encryption Algorithm
at Manjrasoft Aneka2.0 Cloud
Enviroment
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Aneka is a market oriented Cloud development and
management platform with rapid application
development and workload distribution capabilities.
Aneka is an integrated middleware package which
allows you to build and manage an interconnected
network in addition to accelerating development,
deployment and management of distributed
applications using Microsoft .NET frameworks on
these networks.

Figure 4: Aneka Container Logging (Real time
monitoring and log archives)

RC5 Developing Environment

Figure5: Development at Visual Studio Environment


Figure 6: Deployment Environment at IP lavel

Select the conf.xml file & write as
<SchedulerUri Value =
tcp://10.10.21.110:9090/Aneka (ip address of
master container)
In place of
<SchedulerUri Value =
tcp://localhost:9090/Aneka

Running and Encryption Wizard

Figure 7: Selection of File for Encryption
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Figure 8: Original file Text & Encrypted File Text

9. Result Analysis

Here we are comparing the actual result with Amazon
s3 storage service. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage
Service) is an online storage web service which is
offered by Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3
provides storage through web services interface
REST.

Amazon S3 service graph



Aneka 2.0 Service Graph

Conclusion of result: In Aneka service graph,
getting better performance.

10. Conclusion and Future Scope

We believe that data storage security in Cloud
Computing is an area full of challenges and of
paramount importance, is still in its infancy now, and
many research problems are yet to be identified. We
envision several possible directions for future
research on this area. System uses
encryption/decryption keys of users data and stores
it on remote server. Each storage server has an
encrypted file system which encrypts the clients data
and store. Cryptographic techniques are used to
provide secure communication between the client and
the cloud. The system ensures that the clients data is
stored only on trusted storage servers and it cannot be
accessed by administrators or intruders.

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