EXPLORING THE SECURITY OF DATA IN THE CLOUD USING ENCRYPTION

Abstract

The rise of cloud computing over the past few years has resulted in a growing interest among a variety of consumers, businesses, and institutions in taking use of the cloud's various services and applications. The cloud has captured a significant amount of attention from the academic community, the information technology sector, and government agencies due to the fact that it offers a very appealing package of services. Computing in the cloud offers the promise of scalability as well as the availability of resources on demand. As the number of users who access the internet continues to rise on a daily basis, and as the number of attackers follows a similar trajectory, it has become absolutely essential to provide an effective security mechanism for cloud computing in order to ensure the safety of the vast numbers of user requests that are processed on it. Strong security measures in cloud computing systems are, as a result, one of the most critical concerns that researchers need to give significant emphasis to. In an effort to find a solution to this issue, a variety of researchers have proposed a number of different cryptography methods. The use of cloud computing opens up a vast number of doors while also presenting a number of obstacles. The cloud is facing an increasingly difficult problem in terms of security as its capabilities continue to expand. Can users put their full faith in the cloud? Is it safe to save their data in the cloud? Although it is challenging to provide accurate answers to these questions, encrypting the data on the client side can unquestionably serve as an additional layer of safety. In this study, the AES-GCM algorithm was utilized to accomplish the same goal.