An Efficient Scheme for Data Sharing Among Dynamic Cloud Members

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AN EFFICIENT SCHEME FOR DATA SHARING AMONG DYNAMIC CLOUD
MEMBERS
Mahejuba Soudagar1, Rajashekhar D. Salagar2
1M.Tech Student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BLDEA’s V.P. Dr.P.G.Halakatti College of
Engineering & Technology Vijayapur, Karnataka, India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BLDEA’s V.P. Dr.P.G.Halakatti College of
Engineering & Technology Vijayapur, Karnataka, India
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Abstract – Cloud Computing, has the properties of sharing
information and the cost of management maintainenceisless.
Cloud Computing provides a high usage of resource. Sharing
the data along with giving privacy is a challenging issue
because of the frequent change in membership. In this
research work, we propose a scheme for sharing data which is
secure for dynamic members. First, key distribution method is
proposed withoutanycommunicationchannels, andtheGroup
Managers provide keys to users. Second, fine grained access
control can be achieved, cloud data can be used by any user
within the cloud and users who are revoked cannot access the
cloud. Third, the scheme is protected from collusion attack, i.e
revoked users after they are revoked won’t be able to get the
original data even if they join with the third party cloud.
Key Words: key distribution, privacy-preserving, fine
grained access control (FGAC).
1. INTRODUCTION
Cloud Computing, has the properties of sharing information
and the cost of management maintenance is less. Cloud
Computing provides a high usage of resource, It is the next
most important step in the evolution of information
technology, which includes many of and new and already
existing technologies such as SOAs(Service Oriented
Architecture) and virtualization. However, data shared in
cloud usually contains personal information (such as
personal profile, financial data, health records, etc.) and
hence it must be well secured. Since we obtain data from
third party servers, which is sensitive to cloud providers so
security is the main constraint. A common method to
maintain data privacy is encrypting data files before
uploading it to cloud[2]. However, it is difficult to have such
a scheme, especially for groups in the cloud.
A secured storage system which provides cryptography is
used which gives a data sharing scheme on untrustworthy
servers which is based on some techniques which includes
encryption that is encryption is performed on separate
single file group using file block key, and dividing the data
files into separate file groups. But for revocation of usersthe
keys of file-block should be distributed and updated. The
complexities of user revocation and participation in these
schemes are increasing with the number of revoked users
and the data owners
These are the main offerings of our scheme:
1) This scheme gives a secure method of key distribution
without using any secure channels. Theregisteredusers
here obtain their private keys without using any
certificate authoritiessecurelyfromthegroupmanagers
2) Fine-grained access control can be achieved using this
scheme, also any registered user present in the group
can use the cloud resource using the group user list and
the users who are revoked won’t be able to get the data
from cloud after they are revoked.
3) The main benefit of this scheme is that data is secure
from collusion attack also the data sharing process is
safe and secure. Once any user is revoked he cannot
obtain the originally existing data file even if they join
hands with third party servers.
4) Dynamic groups can be handled efficiently by our
scheme, so whenever any user gets added in group or a
user is revoked who has already joined, other user’s
private keys need not be computed and updated again.
2. LITERATURE SURVEY
A. Survey on: Cryptographic Cloud Storage: We look into
the difficulty of constructing a service of secure cloud
storage on the peak of public cloud architecturewhereclient
does not trust the cloud service provider. Cloud storage can
be grouped into two types as private and public cloud
[1].The customer owns the private cloud and only trusted
bodies have access to the private cloud. The cloud service
provider owns the public cloud where data is out of control
and could be attacked by third parties.
B. Survey on: Improved Proxy Re-Encryption Schemes
with Applications to Secure DistributedStorage:In1998,
Blaze, Bloomer, and Strauss (BBS) proposed an application
called atomic proxy re-encryption, in which a semi-trusted
proxy converts a ciphertext for Alice into a ciphertext for
Bob without seeing the underlying plaintext. Proxy re-
encryption[3] allows a proxy to transform a ciphertext
computed under Alice’s public key into one that can be
opened by Bob’s secret key, but this method isnotsecure[2].
The primary advantage of our schemes is that they are

unidirectional (i.e., Alice can delegate to Bob without Bob
having to delegate to her) and do not require delegators to
reveal all of their secret key to anyone – or even interact
with the delegate – in order to allow a proxy to re-encrypt
their ciphertexts.
C. Survey on: Mona:SecureMulti-Owner DataSharing for
Dynamic Groups in the Cloud: Sharing data in a multi-
owner way while preserving data and from an untrusted
cloud is still a challenging issue, mainly due to the frequent
change of the membership. To preserve data privacy, a
simple solution is encrypting data files, and then uploading
the encrypted data into the cloud. Thus to achieve the
reliable and scalable in MONA[4], in this paper we are
presenting new framework for MONA. Inthismethod we are
also presenting how to manage the risks like failureofgroup
manager by increasing the number of backup group
manager, hanging of group manager in case number of
requests more by sharing the workload in multiple group
managers.
3. EXISTING SYSTEM
The existing methods to retrieve the fine grain data access
control of key policy attribute is based on“encryption,proxy
re-encryption and lazy re-encryption [9]”. It does not reveal
any information about the data. But any group member can
utilize the cloud service for storing and sharing data that
may hide the implementation of applications. One methodis
to provide group signatures and encryption methods for a
secure scheme. After registration every user will get two
keys one for encryption and other for decryption which is
attribute key[5]. A secure way of using encrypted file is by
role based encryption algorithms. This scheme is efficient
scheme in terms of storage for user revocation that
combines encryption with role based accesscontrol policies.
However verification of users are not taken into view. In the
proposed system every user gets verified by the cloud
admin.
3.1 Disadvantage in existing system:
 A secure and efficient data sharing scheme is difficult to
design.
 Key distribution overhead is large.
 The verifications of users are not done so it leads to
collusion attack
 There is a weak protection of commitment in the stage
of identity token. So it is unsecure.
4. THE PROPOSED SCHEME
4.1 Preliminaries
1)(Basic Diffe-Hellman Problem (BDHP) Assumption
[6]): Specified base point P and a value γ € It is easy to
calculate γ.P. However, given P,γ.P,itisinfeasibletocalculate
γ since of the discrete algorithm problem.
2)(Decisional Diffie-Hellman Problem (DDHP)
Assumption [7]):
Notation Description
IDEi the identity of user i
IDdatai the identity of data i
qk the public key of the user
tk the private that Needs to be negotiated
with the group manager
KEY=(xi,Ai,B) the private key which is Distributed to the
user from the Group manger and used for
data Sharing
base point Q is infeasible to compute b Q.
and aQ,(a+b)Q
Definition 3 (Weak Bilinear Diffie-Hellman Exponent
[8])
Encpk(): Symmetric encryption algorithm used in the
encryption key k
ASENC(): Asymmetric encryption Algorithm used in the
encryption key ULI group user list DLI data list[6]
4.2 ALGORITHM/TECHNIQUE USED:
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC): was discovered in 1985
by Victor Miller (IBM) and Neil Koblitz (University of
Washington) as an alternative mechanism forimplementing
public-key cryptography.
The equation of an elliptic curve is given as, y2=x3 + ax + b
Few terms that will be used
E -> Elliptic Curve
P -> Point on the Curve
N -> Maximum limit (Prime number)
Key Generation: Key generation creates both public key
and private key. The sender will be encrypting the message
with receiver’s public keyandthereceiver will decryptusing
its private key. Now, we have to select a number ‘d’ within
the range of ‘n’.
Using the following equation we can generate the public key
Q = d * P.
d = The random number that we have selected within the
range of (1 to n-1). P is the point on the curve. ‘Q’ is the
public key and ‘d’ is the private key.

1) Encryption: Let ‘m’ be the message that we are
transferring. We should represent this onthecurve. Thishas
in-depth implementationdetails.All theadvanceresearchon
ECC is done by a company called certicom. Consider ‘m’ has
the point ‘M’ on the curve ‘E’. Randomly select ‘k’ from [1 –
(n-1)].
Two cipher texts gets generated let it be C1 and C2.
C1 = k*P and C2 = M + k*Q. C1 and C2 are sent.
2) Decryption: We have to get back the message ‘m’ that
was sent to us, M = C2 – d * C1
M is the original message that we have sent.
4.3 SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE:
Fig -1: System Architecture
Shown in Fig. 1 above, there are 3 different entities included
under the system model: the cloud, a group manager and
many group members.
 The cloud It is the storage space available to the users
on payment basis. It is maintained by the CSP. This
becomes untrusted since CSP can be easily untrusted.
 Group manager is the one whohastheauthorityofnew
user registration with the group anduserrevocation.He
is the owner of the group so he is fully trustable.
 Group members or group (users) are the one that are
registered by group manager. He can store their own
data into the cloud and share them with other cloud
member. Due to the new user registration and user
revocation, the group membership varies vigorously.
4.4 Design Goals
Important design goals of our scheme are:
1) Key distribution: The users can get their private keys
from the group manager securely. This is key
distributions which do not need any certificates
authorities or channel. In other systems a secure
communication channel is required
2) Access control: Access control includes three main
points. First, Members within the group can utilize the
resources provided by cloud for storing and sharing
data. Second, the users who are not authorized wont be
able to utilize the resources of cloud. The revoked users
also cannot use resources after being revoked
3) Data confidentiality: Data confidentiality means that
unauthorized users including the cloud should not be
able to learn information stored in cloud. However
preserving the data confidentiality is a challengingissue
for dynamic groups. Revoked users cannot decrypt the
data after the revocation.
4) Efficiency: Main requirement of efficiency is that any
group member can save the data files or share the data
files with other group members of the cloud. Alsohereit
is very easy to revoke users without informing others
that is users need not update their keys.
5. ADVANTAGES
 The cost is not dependent on the number of the revoked
users. Because file uploads cost computation is
dependent on two signature verifications. These
signature verifications are irrelevanttonumberofusers
revoked. In RBAC scheme the cost of computation is
small because communication verification is not
concerned. In our scheme, securely the users can get their private
keys from group manager Certificate Authorities. Also,
our scheme can maintain dynamic groups efficiently,
whenever new users connect to the group, the other
users’ private keys need not to be recalculated and
updated.
6. CONCLUSION
We have proposed a secure anti-collusion scheme for data
sharing among dynamic groups in the cloud which is an
efficient method. Here in this scheme, users can get hold of
their private keys securely from group manager, secure
communication channels and certificate Authorities. Our
scheme also supports dynamic groups very efficiently, the
private keys of the other users need not to be computed
again and updated when a new user register in the group or
an existing user is exited from the group. However, our

scheme achieves secure user revocation, the revoked users
cannot obtain the original data after they are removed or
exited even if they joins with the untrusted 3rd parties.
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