Enhanced encryption algorithm (EEA) for protecting users' credentials in public cloud

Cloud is a virtual environment which provides huge amount of storage to cloud users. It is more useful to small and medium scale enterprises for their initial startup. It simplifies the work burden in maintaining the server and storage from users' side. Cloud has serious dispute in securing the data from unauthorized access. If users' sensitive data are stored in cloud then it must be secured. Security of data is ensured by encryption algorithms but not all traditional encryption algorithms do so in cloud. To product the data in cloud, this paper proposes an Enhanced Encryption Algorithm (EEA) for securing the data in cloud storage. This is a symmetric encryption algorithm. It uses same key for encrypting and decrypting the data before stored in to cloud. Result of the proposed EEA produces different ciphertext for same plaintext. It confuses the cryptanalyst (hackers) to get the original data. Hence this EEA is efficient hiding techniques for public cloud.