AN EFFICIENT ENCRYPTION METHOD FOR SECURING ACCESS TO CLOUD DATABASE Swati Vithal Khidse

Cloud computing is growing enormously in public and private sector organization. With the increase in number of users of cloud, there are so many concerns that need to be look out. One such major concern is about security and privacy of data being stored in cloud database. When the user is accessing his data from the cloud he should be assured about security, the data should not be accessible to unauthorized users. Unauthorized user performs number of attempts for accessing the data till he gets some information of use, which results into denial-of-service attack, brute-force attack and etc. Honey Encryption algorithm is used for protecting data by providing the bogus information to the user whenever unauthorized access is performed by the user. Thus unauthorized user will not be able to distinguish between original data and fake data; he will consider fake or bogus data as the original one. On every unauthorized attempt, it will provide different key. If the attacker has found the data then also he is not able to identify the correct one. He will work on that data and will get fake results. In this way the original data will only be accessed by authorized user only. We are proposing algorithm for secured access to cloud database using AES Encryption and Honey Encryption algorithm that will prevent unauthorized users from accessing any real sensitive information