Group Key Management in Cloud for Shared Media Sanitization

Abstract

Cloud provides a low maintenance and affordable storage to various applications and users. The data owner allows the cloud users to access the documents placed in the cloud service provider based on the user's access control vector provided to the cloud users by the data owners. In such type of scenarios, the confidentiality of the documents exchanged between the cloud service provider and the users should be maintained. The existing approaches used to provide this facility are not computation and communication efficient for performing key updating in the data owner side and the key recovery in the user side. This paper discusses the key management services provided to the cloud users. Remote key management and client-side key management are two approaches used by cloud servers. This paper also aims to discuss the method for destroying the encryption/decryption group keys for shared data to securing the data after deletion. Crypto Shredding or Crypto Throw technique is deployed for the same.