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Secure and Efficient Storage of Video Data in a CCTV Environment

  • Kim, Won-Bin;Lee, Im-Yeong
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.3238-3257
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    • 2019
  • Closed-circuit television (CCTV) technology continuously captures and stores video streams. Users are typically required by policy to store all the captured video for a certain period. Accordingly, increasing the number of CCTV operation cycles and photographing positions expands the amount of data to be stored. However, expanding the available storage space for video data incurs increased costs. In recent years, this problem has been addressed with cloud storage solutions, which enable multiple users and devices to access and store data simultaneously. However, because of the large amount of data to be stored, a vast storage space is required. Consequently, cloud storage administrators need a way to store data more efficiently. To save storage space, deduplication technology has been proposed to prevent duplicate storage of the same data. However, because cloud storage is hosted on remote servers, data encryption technology must be applied to address data exposure issues. Although deduplication techniques for encrypted data have been studied, there have been various security vulnerabilities. We attempted to solve this problem by addressing various issues such as poison attacks, property forgery, and ownership management while removing the redundant data and handling the data more securely.

Security Threats in the Mobile Cloud Service Environment (모바일 클라우드 서비스 환경에서의 보안위협에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Jung-Soo
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.263-269
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    • 2014
  • Mobile Cloud Service will provide cloud services through mobile devices. Because storage space constraints and computing process performance limitations of mobile devices, this service will process in the cloud environment after moving works and data that have to process in mobile terminal. The obstacles of mobile cloud service activity will have concerned high about the reliability service, data security, and the confidentiality security. In particular, in convergence of mobile services and cloud services, each threats are expected to be generated complicatedly. In this paper, we define the type of mobile cloud services as well as security threats that can occur in mobile cloud. Also we suggest security countermeasures in mobile app. and enterprises countermeasures. We suggest verification of mobile applications for user information protection about security countermeasures in mobile app. Also we describe the cloud providers responsibility and user responsibility about enterprises countermeasures.

Digital Forensic Model Suitable for Cloud Environment (클라우드 환경에 적합한 디지털 포렌식 수사 모델)

  • Lee, Gymin;Lee, Youngsook
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.15-20
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    • 2017
  • Cloud computing is a service that to use IT resources (software, storage, server, network) through various equipment in an Internet-enabled environment. Due to convenience, efficiency, and cost reduction, the utilization rate has increased recently. However, Cloud providers have become targets for attack Also, Abuse of cloud service is considered as the top security threat. The existing digital forensic procedures are suitable for investigations on individual terminals. In this paper, we propose a new investigation model by analyzing the vulnerable points that occur when you investigate the cloud environment with the existing digital forensic investigation procedure. The proposed investigation model adds a way to obtain account information, and can apply public cloud and private cloud together. Cloud services are also easily accessible and are likely to destroy digital evidence. Therefore, the investigation model was reinforced by adding an account access blocking step.

MyData Cloud: Secure Cloud Architecture for Strengthened Control Over Personal Data (MyData Cloud: 개인 정보 통제 강화를 위한 안전한 클라우드 아키텍쳐 설계)

  • Seungmin Heo;Yonghee Kwon;Beomjoong Kim;Kiseok Jeon;Junghee Lee
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.597-613
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    • 2024
  • MyData is an approach of personal data management, which grants data subjects the right to decide how to use and where to provide their data. With the explicit consent of the subjects, service providers can collect scattered data from data sources and offer personalized services based on the collected data. In existing service models, personal data saved in data storage can be shared with data processors of service providers or third parties. However, once personal data are transferred to third-party processors, it is difficult for data subjects to trace and control their personal data. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a cloud model where both data storage and processor are located within a single cloud, ensuring that data do not leave the cloud.

Efficient Public Verification on the Integrity of Multi-Owner Data in the Cloud

  • Wang, Boyang;Li, Hui;Liu, Xuefeng;Li, Fenghua;Li, Xiaoqing
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.592-599
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    • 2014
  • Cloud computing enables users to easily store their data and simply share data with others. Due to the security threats in an untrusted cloud, users are recommended to compute verification metadata, such as signatures, on their data to protect the integrity. Many mechanisms have been proposed to allow a public verifier to efficiently audit cloud data integrity without receiving the entire data from the cloud. However, to the best of our knowledge, none of them has considered about the efficiency of public verification on multi-owner data, where each block in data is signed by multiple owners. In this paper, we propose a novel public verification mechanism to audit the integrity of multi-owner data in an untrusted cloud by taking the advantage of multisignatures. With our mechanism, the verification time and storage overhead of signatures on multi-owner data in the cloud are independent with the number of owners. In addition, we demonstrate the security of our scheme with rigorous proofs. Compared to the straightforward extension of previous mechanisms, our mechanism shows a better performance in experiments.

Enhanced Privacy Preservation of Cloud Data by using ElGamal Elliptic Curve (EGEC) Homomorphic Encryption Scheme

  • vedaraj, M.;Ezhumalai, P.
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.14 no.11
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    • pp.4522-4536
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    • 2020
  • Nowadays, cloud is the fastest emerging technology in the IT industry. We can store and retrieve data from the cloud. The most frequently occurring problems in the cloud are security and privacy preservation of data. For improving its security, secret information must be protected from various illegal accesses. Numerous traditional cryptography algorithms have been used to increase the privacy in preserving cloud data. Still, there are some problems in privacy protection because of its reduced security. Thus, this article proposes an ElGamal Elliptic Curve (EGEC) Homomorphic encryption scheme for safeguarding the confidentiality of data stored in a cloud. The Users who hold a data can encipher the input data using the proposed EGEC encryption scheme. The homomorphic operations are computed on encrypted data. Whenever user sends data access permission requests to the cloud data storage. The Cloud Service Provider (CSP) validates the user access policy and provides the encrypted data to the user. ElGamal Elliptic Curve (EGEC) decryption was used to generate an original input data. The proposed EGEC homomorphic encryption scheme can be tested using different performance metrics such as execution time, encryption time, decryption time, memory usage, encryption throughput, and decryption throughput. However, efficacy of the ElGamal Elliptic Curve (EGEC) Homomorphic Encryption approach is explained by the comparison study of conventional approaches.

Secure and Efficient Conjunctive Keyword Search Scheme without Secure Channel

  • Wang, Jianhua;Zhao, Zhiyuan;Sun, Lei;Zhu, Zhiqiang
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.2718-2731
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    • 2019
  • Conjunctive keyword search encryption is an important technique for protecting sensitive data that is outsourced to cloud servers. However, the process of searching outsourced data may facilitate the leakage of sensitive data. Thus, an efficient data search approach with high security is critical. To solve this problem, an efficient conjunctive keyword search scheme based on ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption is proposed for cloud storage environment. This paper proposes an efficient mechanism for removing the secure channel and resisting off-line keyword-guessing attacks. The storage overhead and the computational complexity are regardless of the number of keywords. This scheme is proved adaptively secure based on the decisional bilinear Diffie-Hellman assumption in the standard model. Finally, the results of theoretical analysis and experimental simulation show that the proposed scheme has advantages in security, storage overhead and efficiency, and it is more suitable for practical applications.

CP-ABE Access Control that Block Access of Withdrawn Users in Dynamic Cloud

  • Hwang, Yong-Woon;Lee, Im-Yeong
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.14 no.10
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    • pp.4136-4156
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    • 2020
  • Recently, data can be safely shared or stored using the infrastructure of cloud computing in various fields. However, issues such as data security and privacy affect cloud environments. Thus, a variety of security technologies are required, one of them is security technology using CP-ABE. Research into the CP-ABE scheme is currently ongoing, but the existing CP-ABE schemes can pose security threats and are inefficient. In terms of security, the CP-ABE approach should be secure against user collusion attacks and masquerade attacks. In addition, in a dynamic cloud environment where users are frequently added or removed, they must eliminate user access when they leave, and so users will not be able to access the cloud after removal. A user who has left should not be able to access the cloud with the existing attributes, secret key that had been granted. In addition, the existing CP-ABE scheme increases the size of the ciphertext according to the number of attributes specified by the data owner. This leads to inefficient use of cloud storage space and increases the amount of operations carried out by the user, which becomes excessive when the number of attributes is large. In this paper, CP-ABE access control is proposed to block access of withdrawn users in dynamic cloud environments. This proposed scheme focuses on the revocation of the attributes of the withdrawn users and the output of a ciphertext of a constant-size, and improves the efficiency of the user decryption operation through outsourcing.

A More Storage-Efficient Order-Revealing Encryption Scheme (우수한 공간 효율성을 제공하는 순서노출암호 기법)

  • Kim, Kee Sung
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.503-509
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    • 2019
  • Order-revealing encryption which enables a range query over encrypted data is attracting attention as one of the important security technologies in industry such as IoT, smart manufacturing, and cloud computing. In 2015, an ideally-secure order-revealing encryption whose ciphertexts reveal no additional information beyond the order of the underlying plaintexts has been proposed. However, their construction is too inefficient for practical use and some security analysis of multilinear maps, which their construction relies on, have been proposed. Recently, more practical schemes have been proposed, focusing on achieving practically usable efficiency rather than the ideal security. In this paper, we propose a more storage-efficient order-revealing encryption scheme than the Lewi et al.'s scheme most recently published by presenting an idea that can generate shorter ciphertexts without any security loss.

A Study on Individual User's Preference for Cloud Storage Service (클라우드 스토리지 서비스에 대한 개인 사용자의 선호 요인 연구)

  • Lee, Sewon;Hong, Ahreum;Hwang, Junseok
    • Journal of Technology Innovation
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.1-36
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this research is to find individual user's preference for cloud storage service such as Daum Cloud, Naver N-Drive, GoogleDrive, Dropbox, SkyDrive and iCloud. Through literature reviewed and pilot tests, 6 attributes of cloud storage service (storage capacity, perceived cost, collaboration, accessibility, social influence and perceived security) were selected and all 6 attributes had significant effects on the preference of cloud storage service by conjoint analysis. The results shows that the user's willingness to pay is estimated 10,553 won for the free storage, 4,646 won for the function for mobile accessibility, and 2,443 won for more reliable cloud computing service provider. This study has significance to apply conjoint analysis with economic, technological, and environmental factors to cloud storage service (SaaS) and shed light on policy promotion of next generation of cloud computing ecosystem by user perception with willingness to pay on the storage service.