A Review on Secure Access to Cloud Storage by using ABE

Cloud computing is going to be very famous technology in IT enterprises. For an enterprise, the data stored is huge and it is very precious. All tasks are performed through networks. Hence, it becomes very important to have the secured use of data. In cloud computing, the most important concerns of security are data security and privacy. For access control, being one of the classic research topics, many schemes have been proposed and implemented. In this paper, various schemes for encryption that consist of Attribute based encryption (ABE) and its types KP-ABE, CP-ABE is explored. Public Key Encryption acts as the basic technique for ABE where it provides one to many encryptions, here, the private key of users & the cipher-text both rely on attributes such that, when the set of the attributes of users key matches set of attributes of cipher-text with its corresponding access policy, only then decryption is possible

PHOABE : securely outsourcing multi-authority attribute based encryption with policy hidden for cloud assisted IoT

Attribute based encryption (ABE) is an encrypted access control mechanism that ensures efficient data sharing among dynamic group of users. Nevertheless, this encryption technique presents two main drawbacks, namely high decryption cost and publicly shared access policies, thus leading to possible users’ privacy leakage. In this paper, we introduce PHOABE, a Policy-Hidden Outsourced ABE scheme. Our construction presents several advantages. First, it is a multi-attribute authority ABE scheme. Second, the expensive computations for the ABE decryption process is partially delegated to a Semi Trusted Cloud Server. Third, users’ privacy is protected thanks to a hidden access policy. Fourth, PHOABE is proven to be selectively secure, verifiable and policy privacy preserving under the random oracle model. Five, estimation of the processing overhead proves its feasibility in IoT constrained environments

Ciphertext-Policy Attribute Based Encryption with Selectively-Hidden Access Policy

In conventional Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (CP-ABE), the access policy appears in plaintext form that might reveal confidential user information and violate user privacy. CP-ABE with hidden access policies hides all attributes, but the computational burden increases due to the attribute hiding. In this paper, we present a Linear Secret Sharing Scheme (LSSS) access structure CP-ABE scheme that hides only sensitive attributes, rather than all attributes, in the access policy. We also provide an attribute selection method to choose these sensitive attributes and use an Attribute Bloom Filter (ABF) to hide them. Compared with the existing major CP-ABE schemes with hidden access policies, our proposed scheme is flexible in selecting attributes to hide. This scheme enhances the efficiency of policy hiding while still protecting policy privacy. Test results show that our approach is reasonable and feasible

Attribute-based encryption for cloud computing access control: A survey

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