A Trust-aware Access Control Policy for Cloud Data Protection

The use of Cloud computing systems to run large-scale scientific, business and consumer based IT applications has increased rapidly in recent years. More and more Cloud users concern the data privacy protection and security in such systems. A natural way to tackle this problem is to adopt data encryption and access control policy. However, this solution is inevitably introduced a heavy computation overhead. In this paper, we first establish a trust model between Cloud servers and Cloud users. Then, we build the trust-aware attribute-based access control policies according to Cloud user trust level and Cloud request attributes. This technique can give different encryption and decryption data to Cloud user and substantive reduce the computation overhead of Cloud computing.