Performance Evaluation of Cryptographic Security Algorithms on Cloud

Abstract

Cloud computing is a cost-effective approach to provide on demand computing and data storage solutions. Data storage is one of the key services provided by the cloud. Cloud offers improved efficiency, flexibility, and scalability, but all these advantages can be overturned if security is not taken into consideration. It is the cloud vender’s responsibility to keep the data safe with highly secure cloud services, which helps them earn the trust of the customers. Today, cloud security is critical since most organizations are already using cloud computing in alternate forms. There is always a concern that the highly sensitive business information and intellectual property may be exposed or misused due to increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. This research paper provides a distributed architecture for cloud data security which is independent of the underlying platforms. A cloud security architecture provides written and visual model to define how to configure and secure operations within the cloud. This paper compares the performance of RC4 against AES-256. The performance of the proposed encryption algorithms is evaluated on a widely used database MySQL. This paper provides a better solution to ensure the security of cloud databases by using two encryption algorithms.