Title: Providing data security using DNA computing in the cloud computing environment

Authors: Tarun Kumar; Suyel Namasudra; Prabhat Kumar

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar, India ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar, India ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Patna, Bihar, India

Abstract: With the exponential growth of data in the digital era, storing and accessing sensitive information securely has become a paramount concern. As a result, it is important to explore new and innovative ways to secure data in a cloud computing environment by utilising advanced encryption and decryption techniques. Recently, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) computing has emerged as a promising field that has the potential to revolutionise the way data are processed and stored. In this paper, a novel approach using DNA computing is proposed to improve data security in the cloud computing environment. Here, a 512-bit DNA-based secret key is generated by the data owners, which is utilised for data encryption before outsourcing it to the cloud server. Several encoding rules and operations are employed to make the data encryption process secure. Experimental performance analysis and security analysis of the proposed scheme show its efficiency over the existing schemes.

Keywords: DNA-based cryptography; Morse pattern; decimal encoding rules; ASCII values; DNA-based XOR operation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWGS.2023.135587

International Journal of Web and Grid Services, 2023 Vol.19 No.4, pp.463 - 486

Received: 11 May 2023
Accepted: 01 Aug 2023
Published online: 18 Dec 2023 *

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