Survey on: Fade Architecture for Secured Access and Assured Deletion in Cloud Storage

In order to reduce data management cost, we can outsource data backups off-site to third party cloud storage services. Third parties provide security guarantees for the outsourced data. FADE provides policy access control and assured deletion. Assured deletion aims to provide cloud client on option of reliably destroying their data backups upon request. FADE is built upon a set of cryptographic key operations that are self-maintained by a quorum of key managers that are independent of third-party clouds. In particular, FADE acts as an overlay system that works seamlessly atop todays cloud storage services. FADE is built upon a set of cryptographic key operations that are self-maintained by a quorum of key managers that are independent of third-party clouds. In particular, FADE acts as an overlay system that works seamlessly atop todays cloud storage services. A proof-of-concept prototype of FADE is implemented on atop Amazon S3, one of todays cloud storage services. Extensive empirical studies, and demonstration proves that FADE provides security protection for outsourced data, while introducing only minimal performance and monetary cost overhead.