Robust and flexible tunnel management for secure private cloud

  • Authors:
  • Yung-Feng Lu;Chin-Fu Kuo

  • Affiliations:
  • National Taichung University of Science and Technology;National University of Kaohsiung

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Private cloud is cloud infrastructure operated solely for a single organization, whether managed internally or by a third-party and hosted internally or externally. It provides a flexible way to extend the working environment. Since the business process that working on them could be critical, it is important to provide a secure environment for organizations to execute those processes. While user mobility has become an important feature for many systems, technologies that provide users a lower cost and flexible way in joining a secure private cloud are in a strong demand. This paper exploits the key management mechanisms to have secured tunnels with private cloud for users who might move around dynamically without carrying the same machine. A strong authentication with a key agreement scheme is proposed to establish the secure tunnel. Furthermore, the proposed framework also provides mutual authentication, session key renewal between the users and the cloud server. Several related security properties of the proposed mechanism are also presented.