Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption Technique with its Key Management Protocol

Abstract

Cloud computing has been contemplated as the architecture of various Business organizations, providing easy access to vast data storage and applications services. Most of the cloud service providers encrypt the data only on the network , while some even store the data in encrypted format. This means anyone with access to the cloud servers (cloud service providers) can appropriate it. Even if the data is encrypted during storage, keys are often stored along with your data .Thus an end-to-end encryption scheme has been proposed as a promising solution to data storage on cloud ,in order to perform computations on the encrypted data and thereby store the key securely. Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption is a fully homomorphic encryption technique which is compact, semantically secure with significantly smaller public key and is capable of encrypting integer plaintexts rather than single bits, with comparatively lower expansion and computational complexities Keywords-Cloud computing, Cryptography, Homomorphic Key Management (HKM), Homomorphic encryption, Somewhat Homomorphic encryption(SHE).