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Improving the security and encryption performance of cloud storage by using elliptic curve cryptography

Cloud services have emerged as one of the most promising solutions for many real world issues. They can be used in a wide variety of applications ranging from cloud storage, cloud computing, and cloud applications. However, they are a double-edged sword from security and privacy standpoints, e...

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Main Author: Ismaeel, Nooruldeen Qutaiba
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Cloud computing
Curves, Elliptic
Computer security
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/66731/1/FSKTM%202016%2029%20IR.pdf
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spelling oai:psasir.upm.edu.my:66731 http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/66731/ Improving the security and encryption performance of cloud storage by using elliptic curve cryptography Ismaeel, Nooruldeen Qutaiba Cloud services have emerged as one of the most promising solutions for many real world issues. They can be used in a wide variety of applications ranging from cloud storage, cloud computing, and cloud applications. However, they are a double-edged sword from security and privacy standpoints, especially when storing sensitive data in cloud storage. Therefore, besides secure they require efficient security solutions to obtain the necessary security level. The current security solutions are designed to work mainly on either the client side or the server side, and this strategy may cause a reduction of either the performance of the system or the security of the data. In this thesis, we have proposed a security solution based on an ECC algorithm to improve the security and the performance of the data by dividing the file content and encrypting it on both the server and the client side. The proposed solution improves the performance of the standard ECC and outperforms the AES algorithm in terms of encryption speed and response time. 2016-01 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/66731/1/FSKTM%202016%2029%20IR.pdf Ismaeel, Nooruldeen Qutaiba (2016) Improving the security and encryption performance of cloud storage by using elliptic curve cryptography. Masters thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Cloud computing Curves, Elliptic Computer security
institution UPM IR
collection UPM IR
language English
topic Cloud computing
Curves, Elliptic
Computer security
spellingShingle Cloud computing
Curves, Elliptic
Computer security
Ismaeel, Nooruldeen Qutaiba
Improving the security and encryption performance of cloud storage by using elliptic curve cryptography
description Cloud services have emerged as one of the most promising solutions for many real world issues. They can be used in a wide variety of applications ranging from cloud storage, cloud computing, and cloud applications. However, they are a double-edged sword from security and privacy standpoints, especially when storing sensitive data in cloud storage. Therefore, besides secure they require efficient security solutions to obtain the necessary security level. The current security solutions are designed to work mainly on either the client side or the server side, and this strategy may cause a reduction of either the performance of the system or the security of the data. In this thesis, we have proposed a security solution based on an ECC algorithm to improve the security and the performance of the data by dividing the file content and encrypting it on both the server and the client side. The proposed solution improves the performance of the standard ECC and outperforms the AES algorithm in terms of encryption speed and response time.
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title Improving the security and encryption performance of cloud storage by using elliptic curve cryptography
title_short Improving the security and encryption performance of cloud storage by using elliptic curve cryptography
title_full Improving the security and encryption performance of cloud storage by using elliptic curve cryptography
title_fullStr Improving the security and encryption performance of cloud storage by using elliptic curve cryptography
title_full_unstemmed Improving the security and encryption performance of cloud storage by using elliptic curve cryptography
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