Identity based Encryption and Biometric Authentication Scheme for Secure Data Access in Cloud Computing

Cloud computing will be a main informationinfrastructure in the future; it consists of many largedatacenters which are usually geographically distributedand heterogeneous. How to design a secure data accessfor cloud computing platform is a big challenge. In thispaper, we propose a secure data access scheme based onidentity-based encryption and biometric authentication forcloud computing. Firstly, we describe the security concernof cloud computing and then propose an integrated dataaccess scheme for cloud computing, the procedure of theproposed scheme include parameter setup, key distribution,feature template creation, cloud data processing andsecure data access control. Finally, we compare the proposedscheme with other schemes through comprehensiveanalysis and simulation. The results show that the proposeddata access scheme is feasible and secure for cloudcomputing