International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 25 - Number 9 |
Year of Publication: 2011 |
Authors: Sreelatha Malempati, Shashi Mogalla |
10.5120/3063-4186 |
Sreelatha Malempati, Shashi Mogalla . Grid based Approach for Data Confidentiality. International Journal of Computer Applications. 25, 9 ( July 2011), 1-5. DOI=10.5120/3063-4186
Network security measures are required to protect data during their transmission. Sensitive information transmitted across a network requires confidentiality. Data confidentiality is the protection of transmitted data from passive attacks. Passive attacks are eaves dropping or monitoring the traffic. The goal of the intruder is to obtain information being transmitted. These attacks can be prevented by encryption. This paper proposes a simple grid based method for providing confidentiality to the data or the session key being transmitted. The sender and the receiver share a global secret key which is used for extracting the data from a grid.