Elliptic Curve Cryptography Encryption Framework for Ensuring Security in Open Social Networks

Abstract

In today's context, ensuring security in data storage and transfer necessitates the use of data encryption. This study proposes a framework for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) encryption that ensures data security. In this framework, a graphical user interface has been developed for user interaction. The framework accepts text and image inputs and estimates uploading and downloading times. Only authenticated users are permitted to upload a content and only the authenticated users can download the content. The encryption key is generated which is actually having 128 bits but in this ECC framework, it is truncated to 75 bits. The key generation process is completed in less than 0.5 sec, indicating the efficiency of this approach. The key is considered to be valid in using for encryption or decryption for a maximum time period (40 sec). The ECC algorithm is shown to be highly effective in this framework.