Desktop Application for Data Encryption on Google Drive

Abstract

Storage as Service (STaaS) is the main feature that gives the popularity for cloud storage, which provides the use of the maximum capacity with minimum hardware requirements. Data security has become the major aspect that limits the spread of this service due to the cyberattacks. Google drive is the trending and widely used cloud-based storage service with millions of active users where they can store and access data without charges. The project presented from this paper is a desktop application that can encrypt data, before storing on Google drive. The main focus of the project is to facilitate the users by converting data to a ciphertext format using encryption algorithms. Therefore, the issues in Privacy of data, Confidentiality of data, Data Permanence, Data Integrity, and Malicious insiders can be solved by using this application for storing data on Google drive. The interfaces of the system are designed adding simplicity and userfriendliness, targeting the public users with different levels of computer knowledge