A Survey on the Encryption Algorithms in the Cloud Security Applications

This paper presents a survey on the cloud security techniques using the encryption algorithm. The use of appropriate encryption algorithm increases the level of security in the cloud applications. The use of the encryption algorithm has been taken into account for this survey. This survey is based upon the recent cloud security solutions based upon the encryption algorithms. The use of unsecure encryption algorithms like DES or 3DES can lead to a disastrous result, which can expose the whole application data to the hackers. This survey will entirely based upon providing the opinion for the cloud security solution designers about the use of the encryption algorithms. The evaluated encryption algorithms are AES, DES, 3DES, Blowfish etc. The AES and Blowfish have been found for the recommendations to the security solution designers. The AES is the most secure and blowfish the second most secure but fastest algorithm among all others.