Anonymous Authentication using ABE for Securing Cloud Storage

In recent days cloud is the best option to store data and provide various services such as Infrastructure as a service cloud, Platform as a service cloud, Software as a service cloud and also communication as a service cloud. Cloud can be used for the various purposes, may be publically open or privacy based secured for sensitive information. The information in cloud can be secured in many ways as per the needs of the users. The authorization and authentication is the main issue in any service from such clouds. The attribute based encryption is the way to secure the authentication process to access and to control the access to the cloud and cloud services. Using same theme the authentication can be done without knowing the identity of the users i.e. to keep user anonymous for the curious system as well as administrator of the system. Considering decentralized access control and need to hide identity of the user, the concept of anonymous authentication is introduced and discussed in this paper. The multitenant SaaS is considered here and few issues related to ABE are focused. Citation: Sadanand H Bhuse, Sinhgad Academy of Engineering; Santosh Shelke ,Sinhgad Academy of Engineering. "Anonymous Authentication using ABE for Securing Cloud Storage." Global Research and Development Journal For Engineering 25 2017: 326 - 330.