Accountable Privacy-Preserving Mechanism for Cloud

Computing
Based On Identity-Based Encryption

Abstract
Cloud computing is an on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data
storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user. The term is
generally used to describe data centers available to many users over the Internet. Considering
the
open and cross-domains of cloud computing, traditional privacy protection technology may
not
be effective in cloud computing. In this paper, inspired by the accountability idea, we
proposed
an accountable privacy-preserving mechanism based on Identity-Based Encryption (IBE) for
cloud computing, which focuses on constraining the illegal network behavior by performing
accountability to protect the privacy for cloud participants. In this system detailed safety
analysis
and proof of proposed mechanism are provided.
Considering the openness and cross-domains of cloud computing, the traditional privacy preserving
technology cannot be applied in cloud computing efficiently. In this paper, inspired by the
accountability idea, we proposed an accountable privacy-preserving mechanism based on identity-based
encryption for cloud computing, which focuses on constraining the illegal network behavior by performing
accountability to protect the privacy for cloud participants. First, based on the description logic, we defined
the basic privacy concepts about the privacy guarantee, privacy request, privacy attribute, and privacy
exposure condition for cloud system, and at the same time, the system architecture for the proposed accountable
privacy-preserving mechanism is presented; second, combining the proposed accounting and auditing
approaches, the integrated accountable privacy-preserving mechanism for cloud computing is proposed; and
then, based on the possible two kinds adversary attacks against the proposed mechanism, the detailed security
analysis and proof for the proposed mechanism are given; finally, we provide extensive experimental results
and potential accountability implementation to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed mechanism.