A Secure Cloud Storage using ECC-Based Homomorphic Encryption

Abstract

This paper presents a new homomorphic public-key encryption scheme based on the elliptic curve cryptography (HPKE-ECC). This HPKE-ECC scheme allows public computation on encrypted data stored on a cloud in such a manner that the output of this computation gives a valid encryption of some operations (addition/multiplication) on original data. The cloud system (server) has only access to the encrypted files of an authenticated end-user stored in it and can only do computation on these stored files according to the request of an end-user (client). The implementation of proposed HPKE-ECC protocol uses the properties of elliptic curve operations as well as bilinear pairing property on groups and the implementation is done by Weil and Tate pairing. The security of proposed encryption technique depends on the hardness of ECDLP and BDHP.