A Novel Approach for being Completely Anonymous in Cloud Computing Environment

Document Type : Persian Original Article

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Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Software Engineering, University of Isfahan, Hezar Jerib Ave., Isfahan, Iran.

Abstract

‌Cloud computing technology has attracted the attention of researchers in recent years. Providing user security in terms of anonymity is one of the most important subject in the domain of cloud computing. Users desire to conceal their identity while using cloud computing services. Although there are researches for providing anonymity in the networks, there are limited works on embedding the anonymity feature in the cloud computing context. In this paper, we propose an anonymity approach to provide the anonymity of cloud users against the cloud provider and make the user to be resistant against traffic analysis attacks. In this way, all the communication messages between users and the provider has been passed through a set of intermediate hosts. Therefore, not only the users' request messages but also the provider response messages are resistant against traffic analysis attackers. Moreover, the users desired anonymity and computation is adjustable in the proposed technique.

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Journal of Soft Computing and Information Technology
Volume 8, Issue 2 - Serial Number 24
Summer
June 2019
Pages 55-75

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