Framework to establish offline file sharing in Application as a service layer in cloud computing

Abstract

Term cloud computing has opened entire new domain of computability, reliability and efficiency. Organizations can now focus on providing targeted services to consumers rather than considering infrastructure and resource issues. Cloud consumers can enjoy ease of computing and power of reliability but cloud service providers have to ensure many measures to let cloud services be reality and reliable. Consumers can store their valuable data on cloud and can use them as and when required. This leads to some key points like security of cloud data should be considered, sharing of cloud data as per requirement should be done. Allocation of required resources to the consumers should be done efficiently and above all, cloud service providers should have opportunity to gain some economical values. This research paper is based on providing some mechanism to allow file sharing among various cloud users. This paper proposed a framework that can be followed to easily share file residing on cloud with another cloud user. In this framework, concept of cryptography has been used to generate secure key that can be shared among users. Cryptography allows encryption and decryption of different normal text to some cipher text that cannot be interpreted easily. This paper has proposed secure mechanism of generating key, sharing a key and validating use of key for given file. Most important aspect considered in this research paper is, the user who owns a file and wants to provide access to other user don’t have internet access at hand. Framework uses mobile technology to contact service providers and generate a key as and when needed.

Keywords— Cloud computing, cryptography, AES, RSA, Security, Authentication, Validation, Application as a service