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SECURE ACCESS CONTROL OF PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS IN CLOUD COMPUTING USING CRYPTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE

International Journal of Computer Science (IJCS) Published by SK Research Group of Companies (SKRGC)

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Abstract

Personal health record (PHR) is an emerging patient-centric model of health information exchange, which is often outsourced to be stored at a third party, such as cloud providers. However, there have been wide privacy concerns as personal health information could be exposed to those third party servers and to unauthorized parties. Yet, issues such as risks of privacy exposure, scalability in key management, flexible access, and efficient user revocation, have remained the most important challenges toward achieving fine-grained, cryptographically enforced data access control. In this paper, we propose a novel patient-centric framework and a suite of mechanisms for data access control to PHRs stored in semitrusted servers. To achieve fine-grained and scalable data access control for PHRs, we leverage attribute-based encryption (ABE) techniques to encrypt each patient’s PHR file. Different from previous works in secure data outsourcing, we focus on the multiple data owner scenario, and divide the users in the PHR system into multiple security domains that greatly reduces the key management complexity for owners and users. A high degree of patient privacy is guaranteed simultaneously by exploiting multi authority ABE. Our scheme also enables dynamic modification of access policies or file attributes, supports efficient on-demand user/attribute revocation and break-glass access under emergency scenarios. Extensive analytical and experimental results are presented which show the security, scalability, and efficiency of our proposed scheme

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Keywords

Personal health records, cloud computing, data privacy, fine-grained access control, attribute-based encryption.

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  • Format Volume 2, Issue 2, No 2, 2014.
  • Copyright All Rights Reserved ©2014
  • Year of Publication 2014
  • Author REVATHI P.K
  • Reference IJCS-056
  • Page No 324-327

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