Maher Alharby^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.2, pp. 2449-2463, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.050425

Abstract Cloud computing has emerged as a viable alternative to traditional computing infrastructures, offering various benefits. However, the adoption of cloud storage poses significant risks to data secrecy and integrity. This article presents an effective mechanism to preserve the secrecy and integrity of data stored on the public cloud by leveraging blockchain technology, smart contracts, and cryptographic primitives. The proposed approach utilizes a Solidity-based smart contract as an auditor for maintaining and verifying the integrity of outsourced data. To preserve data secrecy, symmetric encryption systems are employed to encrypt user data before outsourcing it. An extensive More >

E. Srimathi^1,*, S. P. Chokkalingam²

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.1, pp. 903-918, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.029790

Abstract When it comes to data storage, cloud computing and cloud storage providers play a critical role. The cloud data can be accessed from any location with an internet connection. Additionally, the risk of losing privacy when data is stored in a cloud environment is also increased. A variety of security techniques are employed in the cloud to enhance security. In this paper, we aim at maintaining the privacy of stored data in cloud environment by implementing block-based modelling to boost the privacy level with Anti-Codify Technique (ACoT) and block cipher-based algorithms. Initially, the cipher text… More >

D. Viji^*, S. Revathy

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 27-42, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.030259

Abstract Cloud storage is essential for managing user data to store and retrieve from the distributed data centre. The storage service is distributed as pay a service for accessing the size to collect the data. Due to the massive amount of data stored in the data centre containing similar information and file structures remaining in multi-copy, duplication leads to increase storage space. The potential deduplication system doesn’t make efficient data reduction because of inaccuracy in finding similar data analysis. It creates a complex nature to increase the storage consumption under cost. To resolve this problem, this… More >

Yifei Xiao, Shijie Zhou^*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.135, No.1, pp. 169-185, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.021795

Abstract To achieve the high availability of health data in erasure-coded cloud storage systems, the data update performance in erasure coding should be continuously optimized. However, the data update performance is often bottlenecked by the constrained cross-rack bandwidth. Various techniques have been proposed in the literature to improve network bandwidth efficiency, including delta transmission, relay, and batch update. These techniques were largely proposed individually previously, and in this work, we seek to use them jointly. To mitigate the cross-rack update traffic, we propose DXR-DU which builds on four valuable techniques: (i) delta transmission, (ii) XOR-based data More >

M. Antony Joans Kumar^1,*, C. Christopher Columbus², E. Ben George³, T. Ajith Bosco Raj⁴

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.44, No.2, pp. 1735-1747, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.025906

Abstract The sensitive data stored in the public cloud by privileged users, such as corporate companies and government agencies are highly vulnerable in the hands of cloud providers and hackers. The proposed Virtual Cloud Storage Architecture is primarily concerned with data integrity and confidentiality, as well as availability. To provide confidentiality and availability, the file to be stored in cloud storage should be encrypted using an auto-generated key and then encoded into distinct chunks. Hashing the encoded chunks ensured the file integrity, and a newly proposed Circular Shift Chunk Allocation technique was used to determine the… More >

A. Indumathi^*, G. Sumathi

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.32, No.3, pp. 1509-1524, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.022743

Abstract As cloud storage systems have developed and been applied in complex environments, their data security has become more prevalent in recent years. The issue has been approached through many models. Data is encrypted and stored in these models. One of the most widely used encryption methods is the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). In AES, the Substitution box(S-box) is playing a significant part in imparting the job of confusion. The security of the entire cryptosystem depends on its nonlinearity. In this work, a robust and secure S-box is constructed using a novel method, i.e., fingerprint features-based permutation… More >

N. Niyaz Ahamed^*, N. Duraipandian

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.41, No.1, pp. 83-94, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.020071

Abstract The tremendous development of cloud computing with related technologies is an unexpected one. However, centralized cloud storage faces few challenges such as latency, storage, and packet drop in the network. Cloud storage gets more attention due to its huge data storage and ensures the security of secret information. Most of the developments in cloud storage have been positive except better cost model and effectiveness, but still data leakage in security are billion-dollar questions to consumers. Traditional data security techniques are usually based on cryptographic methods, but these approaches may not be able to withstand an… More >

Jia-Shun Zhang¹, Gang Xu^2,*, Xiu-Bo Chen¹, Haseeb Ahmad³, Xin Liu⁴, Wen Liu^5,6,7

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 2903-2916, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.017227

Abstract With the rapid development of cloud computing technology, cloud services have now become a new business model for information services. The cloud server provides the IT resources required by customers in a self-service manner through the network, realizing business expansion and rapid innovation. However, due to the insufficient protection of data privacy, the problem of data privacy leakage in cloud storage is threatening cloud computing. To address the problem, we propose BC-PECK, a data protection scheme based on blockchain and public key searchable encryption. Firstly, all the data is protected by the encryption algorithm. The… More >

Prakhar Sahu^1,*, S. K. Singh¹, Arun Kumar Singh²

Journal of Cyber Security, Vol.3, No.2, pp. 107-115, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jcs.2021.020831

Abstract Industry 4.0 is one of the hot topic of today’s world where everything in the industry will be data driven and technological advancements will take place accordingly. In the fourth phase of industrial revolution, manufacturers are dependent upon data produced by the consumers to invent, innovate or change anything for the product. Internet of things devices like OBD, RFID, IIoT, Smart devices are the major source of data generation and represents trends in the industry. Since the IoT device are vulnerable to hackers due to its limitation, consumer data security should be tighten up More >

Donglei Lu¹, Dongjie Zhu^2,*, Yundong Sun³, Haiwen Du³, Xiaofang Li⁴, Rongning Qu⁴, Yansong Wang³, Ning Cao¹, Helen Min Zhou⁵

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.38, No.3, pp. 339-350, 2021, DOI:10.32604/csse.2021.016683

Abstract In recent years, the Internet of Things technology has developed rapidly, and smart Internet of Things devices have also been widely popularized. A large amount of data is generated every moment. Now we are in the era of big data in the Internet of Things. The rapid growth of massive data has brought great challenges to storage technology, which cannot be well coped with by traditional storage technology. The demand for massive data storage has given birth to cloud storage technology. Load balancing technology plays an important role in improving the performance and resource utilization… More >