Secure Cloud Communication for Banking Sector

Abstract

Banking and other financial transactions are growing all over the world. With the advancement of technology and growth in the cloud platforms in the banking industry, information sharing in the organization is becoming easier, but with that more vulnerable to attacks. Proper user authentication is a major issue in such platforms. In this paper, we proposed a concept in which the image is segmented and organized in grid to form the pattern and the image click count is clubbed with the pattern, the way of formation of password is easy and together with that the pattern form is quite strong to overcome the various types of attacks like brute force, password guessing etc. Similarly, the concept of the combined key is also the unique concept which we have applied to act as the session key, which is used in the process of the sharing of the secure information between the two authorized users. Together with the session key, the use of the image hash in the transaction will make the authentication stronger. The pattern generated is tested over the various tools to test the strength and the results obtained are quite impressive.