Article: Provably secure authentication approach for data security in the cloud using hashing, encryption, and Chebyshev-based authentication Journal: International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics (IJESDF) 2021 Vol.13 No.5 pp.475 - 497 Abstract: Secure and efficient authentication mechanism becomes a major concern in cloud computing due to the data sharing among cloud servers and users through the internet. This paper proposed an efficient hashing, encryption, and Chebyshev (HEC)-based authentication in order to provide security among data communication. With the formal and informal security analysis, it has been demonstrated that the proposed HEC-based authentication approach provides data security more efficiently in the cloud. The proposed approach amplifies the security issues and ensures the privacy and data security to the cloud user. Moreover, the proposed HEC-based authentication approach makes the system more robust and secured and has been verified with multiple scenarios. However, the proposed authentication approach requires less computational time and memory than the existing authentication techniques. The performance revealed by the proposed HEC-based authentication approach is measured in terms of computation time and memory as 26 ms, and 1,878 bytes for 100 Kb data size, respectively. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Provably secure authentication approach for data security in the cloud using hashing, encryption, and Chebyshev-based authentication

Authors: Danish Ahamad; Md Mobin Akhtar; Shabi Alam Hameed; Mahmoud Mohammad Mahmoud Al Qerom

Addresses: Shaqra University, Shaqraa, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ' Riyadh Elm University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ' Collage of Science and Humanities, Shaqra University, Huraymla, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ' College of Computing Science and Engineering, University of Salford, Manchester, UK

Abstract: Secure and efficient authentication mechanism becomes a major concern in cloud computing due to the data sharing among cloud servers and users through the internet. This paper proposed an efficient hashing, encryption, and Chebyshev (HEC)-based authentication in order to provide security among data communication. With the formal and informal security analysis, it has been demonstrated that the proposed HEC-based authentication approach provides data security more efficiently in the cloud. The proposed approach amplifies the security issues and ensures the privacy and data security to the cloud user. Moreover, the proposed HEC-based authentication approach makes the system more robust and secured and has been verified with multiple scenarios. However, the proposed authentication approach requires less computational time and memory than the existing authentication techniques. The performance revealed by the proposed HEC-based authentication approach is measured in terms of computation time and memory as 26 ms, and 1,878 bytes for 100 Kb data size, respectively.

Keywords: cloud computing; authentication; data security; access control; data privacy; hashing, encryption, and Chebyshev; HEC.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESDF.2021.117315

International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, 2021 Vol.13 No.5, pp.475 - 497

Received: 27 Mar 2020
Accepted: 29 Jun 2020
Published online: 31 Aug 2021 *

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