Homomorphic Encryption Integrated with Hill Cipher Method: Cloud Secure Data 2 (2) 1-12
Author Name: Mohd Atif Kaleem, Prof. Udai Shankar, Dr. Javed Wasim
Paper id: 25301
Abstract:
Cloud computing has expanded very rapidly in commercial as well as research fields. Cloud computing has emerged as a widely adopted paradigm, enabling users to store vast amounts of data on remote cloud servers for extended access and utilization. Nevertheless, it introduces a range of significant security challenges, such as ensuring data protection, maintaining privacy, safeguarding confidentiality, preserving data integrity, and verifying authentication. Since data is stored and processed at off-site locations by both users and cloud service providers, maintaining its integrity and confidentiality becomes a fundamental challenge. Typically, cloud service providers store data in plaintext, requiring users to implement their own encryption mechanisms if enhanced security is desired. Moreover, such encrypted data must be decrypted each time it undergoes processing. This study explores the application of homomorphic encryption, specifically leveraging the Hill cipher algorithm, to enhance data security within cloud environments. The scheme combines classical Hill Cipher with additive Homomorphic Encryption in order to enable secure computation over encrypted data. Cloud is where data gets stored in encrypted form. The cipher key used for encrypting data is important. It focuses on the storage of data in encrypted form on the cloud using additive homomorphic encryption, which particularly fits small-to-medium-sized data where the efficiency in encryption matters the most.


