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Cloud computing is a recently developed new technology for complex systems with massive-scale services sharing among numerous users. Therefore, authentication of both users and services is a significant issue for the trust and security of the cloud computing. SSL Authentication Protocol (SAP), once applied in cloud computing, will become so complicated that users will undergo a heavily loaded point both in computation and communication. This paper, based on the identity-based hierarchical model for cloud computing (IBHMCC) and its corresponding encryption and signature schemes, presented a new identity-based authentication protocol for cloud computing and services. Through simulation testing, it is shown that the authentication protocol is more lightweight and efficient than SAP, specially the more lightweight user side. Such merit of our model with great scalability is very suited to the massive-scale cloud.
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Li, H., Dai, Y., Tian, L., Yang, H. (2009). Identity-Based Authentication for Cloud Computing. In: Jaatun, M.G., Zhao, G., Rong, C. (eds) Cloud Computing. CloudCom 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5931. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10665-1_14
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