Date of Publication :10th January 2018

Abstract: Since data in cloud will be placed anywhere, because of the critical nature of the applications, it is important that clouds 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. This is because if one wants to exploit the benefits of using cloud computing. This requirement imposes clear data management choices: original plain data must be accessible only by trusted parties that do not include cloud providers, intermediaries, and Internet; in any untrusted context, data must be encrypted. Satisfying these goals has different levels of complexity depending on the type of cloud service. This system proposed an improve data security protection mechanism for cloud using two components. In this system sender sends an encrypted message to a receiver with the help of cloud system. The sender requires to know identity of receiver but no need of other information such as certificate or public key. To decrypt the cipher text, receiver needs two parts. The first thing is a unique personal security device or some hardware device connected to the computer system. Second one is private key or secrete key stored in the computer. Without having these two things cipher text never decrypted. The import ant thing is the security device lost or stolen, then cipher text cannot be decrypted and hardware device is revoked or cancelled to decrypt cipher text.

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