Hierarchal Identity Based Socket for Datacenters

Now a days more and more companies are moving towards cloud computing, there are several services provided by them. But at the same time there are several security issues. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) key generation and distribution can not cope with the scale of the cloud data center also the authentication is slow. The other security solution is Kerberos which is not scalable. Identity based cryptography has several features which make it useful in cloud computing data center. In this paper a prototype framework for Hierarchal Identity Based Socket has been developed. It provides all cryptographic capabilities from key generation, key distribution, encryption, signature and authentication. For providing a certificate free mutual authentication and data confidentiality an Identity Based Cryptography (IBC) based secure socket has been developed. These sockets can be used in place of traditional SSL based sockets. This project is developed and tested with Java. Since pairing based cryptography is faster than asymmetric cryptography and there is no need of certificates in Hierarchal Identity Based Cryptography (HIBC) authentication, encryption and verification time are linear and decryption and signature time is nearly constant, we can say that our system will well fit for cloud computing Datacenter.