Novel Techniques for Secure Use of Public Cloud Computing Resources

Abstract

The federal government has an expressed interest in moving data and services to third party service providers in order to take advantage of the flexibility, scalability, and potential cost savings. This approach is called cloud computing. The thesis for this research is that efficient techniques exist to support the secure use of public cloud computing resources by a large, federated enterprise. The primary contributions of this research are the novel cryptographic system MA-AHASBE (Multi-Authority Anonymous Hierarchical Attribute-Set Based Encryption), and the techniques used to incorporate MA-AHASBE in a real world application. Performance results indicate that while there is a cost associated with enforcing the suggested security model, the cost is not unreasonable and the benefits in security can be significant. The contributions of this research give the DoD additional tools for supporting the mission while taking advantage of the cost efficient public cloud computing resources that are becoming widely available.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 17, 2015
Accession Number
ADA621830

Entities

People

  • Kyle E. Stewart

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Asymetric Encryption
  • Computer Network Security
  • Computer Programming
  • Cryptography
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data Centers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Electronic Mail
  • Governments
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • National Governments
  • Operating Systems
  • Social Media
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Systems Analysis and Design