Secure Data Quiry Using Unique Hash Indexing Utilizing MAC Address in a Remote Data Storage

Abstract

Data privacy and protection is the hottest topic in cloud computing-based systems. Cloud based systems users keen on finding a way to ensure the security of information and maintaining privacy using remote document search to eliminate the need to retrieve data from the cloud. In this paper, we propose a novel model to provide a unique index using SHA-256 Hashing and to utilize the uniqueness of MAC address to produce a unique MAC-HASH with no collision and minimal processing time. The results has been proven to be irreversible and give a unique value for each user and lies in dispersing infiltrators of data and the hacker would have no access to the original data. Therefore, the files will be blind searched and the cloud administrator and the hacker would have no knowledge of your search.