AN ALGORITHM TO SECURE DATA FOR CLOUD STORAGE

Abstract

Now a day's cloud computing is the backbone of the digital world. Cloud service providers every type of service needed by consumers. It offers various resources to all consumers by dynamic allocation for guaranteed services. One of the major services of storage is primarily used by consumers. Many free services for cloud storage are available to use. On the other side, a group of malicious activities increases with an increase in facilities. The malicious activities may change the format of data, which can't be used by users. Some ransomware is very active, which is asking ransoms to recover the data. In view of many examples of security threats, this paper proposes a mechanism for data security. This paper describes a security algorithm, which is the encryption mechanism of data. The encryption algorithm encrypts all the data stored by cloud users. The algorithm is tested with different sizes and different types of files. It is designed in a manner so that it can work fast and efficiently in the cloud environment.