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S. Kavin Hari Hara Sudhan ¹, S. Saravana Kumar ²

Affiliations
1 Information Technology, St. Peter’s University, Chennai – 600054, Tamil Nadu, IN
2 Department of Computer Science Engineering, SVEC, Chennai – 602117, Tamil Nadu, IN

Abstract

Background/Objectives: Cloud computing has been emerging technology in recent years. But security is the main concern for the user not to accepting the cloud computing systems. Among them lack of trust and multi tenancy are the major issues, altogether comes under authentication problem Methods/Statistical Analysis: These problems are mainly in third party management model and self managed models as well. In order to overcome such tribulations Biometric is the major concern. Even in biometric research group is very much concentrating on security of biometric templates. For the security of biometric template, The two encryption algorithms such as AES, RSA have been imposed on templates. Findings: The biometric template will be safe in transit and storage as well in both cloud consumer and cloud provider side to improve the reliability of cloud. Applications/Improvements: If such approach has been adopted then confidence regarding the usage of cloud will be greater than before.

Keywords

Authentication, Biometric, Cloud, Encryption, Privacy, Security

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S. Kavin Hari Hara Sudhan ¹, S. Saravana Kumar ²

Affiliations
1 Information Technology, St. Peter’s University, Tonakela Camp Road, Sankar Nagar, Avadi, Chennai - 600054, Tamil Nadu, IN
2 CSE/IT, Karpagam college of Engineering, Coimbatore – 641032, Tamil Nadu, IN

Abstract

Objectives: Nowadays cloud is becoming the major research area because of the security threats against cloud. According to the reports of CSA (cloud security alliance), much more security issues are related to authentication and improper data security etc. Methods/Statistical Analysis: Such problems can be neutralized by adopting biometric authentication mechanism in a novel way by providing protection in every direction since cloud is a medium where much more valuable computational data have been stored and transferred. Findings: In our approach, biometric authentication has been given a new dimension for the different level of security. And the public key and private key encryptions have been used in combination where data needs to be protected. By merging these biometric authentications along with multi-level encryption will give the enhanced security over the cloud and increase the confidentiality to use the cloud among cloud consumers as well as cloud providers. Applications/Improvements: Implementation of such methodology has given tremendous results over the security issues, authentication issues.

Keywords

AES, Authentication, Biometric, Cloud Computing, Confidentiality, Data Security, 3DES, Elgamal, RSA.

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