Question
How to establish identity of parties in a cloud communication channel?
Context
In a cloud environment, multiple physical and logical component connect and exchange information. Without proper authentication between communicating parties, man-in-the-middle attacks are possible.
Solution
Using two-way authentication to allow both entities in a communications link authenticate each other.
References
Mutual Authentication in Cloud Computing - A Review - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
A Secure Mutual Authentication Protocol for Cloud Computing Using Secret Sharing and Steganography - ieeexplore.ieee.org
