Secure cloud video streaming using tokens

Abstract

Nowadays, many applications benefit from the increasing number of resources that cloud computing provides in order to improve the quality of their services. Most of these services require an account in order to access different resources, limiting their users to personal devices for the benefit of security, i.e., a (possible) malicious device should not be used to authenticate. In this paper we introduce a novel architecture that allows sharing temporary and limited credentials with any device in order to increase the usability of cloud-based services. We show the efficiency and easiness to use of our solution by implementing video streaming service using well-known public cloud computing and a common and cost-efficient hardware.