Two-Layer Security Algorithms to Prevent Attacks on Data in Cyberspace

Abstract

The ratio at which the number of users is increasing in cloud computing, the same as the number of data destruction, has doubled. Various algorithms have been designed to secure cloud servers to prevent an attacker from attacking, but they cannot protect the data. With the help of cryptography, data are converted into a format that is difficult for an attacker to understand, and these data can be broadcasted in a reliable format. If the attacker obtains access to the cryptographic algorithm, then the attacker can easily decrypt the data, but if the data are encrypted with the help of the key, it is difficult for the attacker to decrypt the data without the key. When the data are encrypted with the same key at different times, there is a possibility to obtain the actual key with the help of the Kasiski test. Different researchers have encrypted the data with the help of the same key or have developed an algorithm by combining different algorithms, which is a problem. This paper developed an efficient algorithm that cannot be broken easily. Even if an attacker obtains access to the algorithm, the attacker cannot identify the keys derived from that text, and the key only works in the text from which it is generated, which is the novelty of this paper. Data are secured in two different layers. In Layer-1, the proposed algorithm implements plaintext and a static key to obtain the encrypted text and a Vigenère key. In Layer-2, the encrypted text and the Vigenère key are implemented on the Vigenère cipher algorithm to obtain the ciphertext. At the end of the paper, a comparison of different papers is made with the proposed paper, and a conclusion is made based on different techniques and results.

Keywords

• cryptography
• Vigenère cipher
• security
• prevention
• two-layer
• cipher