Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption to Secure Cloud Computing

Abstract

The concept of cloud computing receiving a great deal of attention both in publication and among users. Cloud computing is the delivery of computing services over the Internet. Cloud services allow individuals and businesses to use software and hardware resources that are managed by cloud providers at remote locations. The distance between the client and the physical location of his data creates a barrier because this data can be accessed by a third party and this would affect the privacy of client’s data. The using of traditional encryption schemes to encrypt the remoted data before sending to the cloud provider has been most widely used technique to bridge this security gab. But, the client will need to provide the private key to the server to decrypt the data before perform the calculations required. Homomorphic encryption allows to perform computations on encrypted data without decryption. This paper deals with the use of homomorphic encryption to encrypt the client’s data in cloud server and also it enables to execute required computations on this encrypted data.