Efficiency Analysis of Cryptographic Algorithms for Image Data Security in Cloud Environment

Abstract

Cloud computing uses a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data. As the cloud is explicitly unsafe, from the time the cloud platform was utilized for storage many researchers and analysts have been trying to develop many encryption algorithms to provide excellent security on the data. The algorithms’ weaknesses, performance and strength should be known to apply a suitable cryptography algorithm to an application. This paper evaluates the efficiency of the encryption techniques AES, DES, 3DES, Blowfish, RC4 and RSA on the basis of image data security and performance in the cloud environment. The algorithms have been subjected to different analytic tests such as differential cryptanalysis, statistical analysis, key sensitivity analysis, and performance analysis to analyses the efficiency of each algorithm for security and performance.

Keywords:

• Cloud computing
• Cloud security
• Cryptography
• Image encryption
• Image storing
• Security algorithms analysis

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B. Rahul

B Rahul is a PhD research scholar, Department of Computer Science, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India. He has completed MPhil, MSc, BSc degrees in computer science. His area of research interest is information security, design of algorithms. He published two papers in international journals.

K. Kuppusamy

K Kuppusamy is a professor & head i/c, Department of Computational Logistics, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India. He obtained MSc, MPhil, MCA, BEd, PGDOR, PhD degrees. He has 32 years of teaching and 17 years of research experience. His areas of specialization and research interests are information / network security, algorithms, and software engineering. He has guided 9 PhD students, 39 MPhil students, 7 MPhil (DDE) and 2 MTech students, and ongoing 5 PhD students. He has research publications in 98 international journals and 10 national journals. Moreover, he has given presentations in 32 international conferences and 42 national conferences. He authored a book and five book chapters. E-mail: [email protected]