A Proposed Framework for Outsourcing and Secure Encrypted Data on OpenStack Object Storage (Swift)
- 1 Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Abstract
Despite the numerous potential benefits of Open Source Cloud Computing (OSCC) in several industrial and academic-oriented environments, OSCC could be also associated with some risks. However, which a proper awareness to the cloud consumers or organisations, these risks can be clearly identify and avoided. OpenStack Swift security can provide a greater understanding of how OpenStack Swift functions and what types of security issues arise therein. In this study, a lightweight and robust cloud-based security model for OpenStack object storage within a cloud computing environment is proposed. Swift is a multi-user based model in which every owner encrypts her/his files; each owner uses different levels of cryptographic security. A reduction in the key distribution complexity in this diverse model with a variety of security based settings is critical. Note that proposed model incorporates cryptographic algorithms at the first level (authentication/authorisation) and a hash function to introduce a more secure access method for authentication and authorisation.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2015.590.597
Copyright: © 2015 Hala Albaroodi, Selvakumar Manickam and Mohammed Anbar. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Security
- Cloud Computing
- Cloud Storage
- OpenStack
- OpenStack Object Storage Swift