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Cloud Computing Mini project

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CLOUD COMPUTING MINI PROJECT REPORT ON

“SECURE UPLOAD AND DOWNLOAD OF FILES

ON LOCAL SERVER WITH UUID ENCRYPTION”

BY

MS. Tanjila Momin ERP Roll NO. 35

MS. Ketaki Upare ERP Roll NO. 65
MR. Kanaad Rampurkar ERP Roll NO. 32

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING

ALL INDIA SHRI SHIVAJI MEOMRIAL SOCIETY’S

INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
PUNE 411041

SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY

2020-2021

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Department of Computer
Engineering

CERTIFICATE
We Tanjila Momin, Ketaki Upare, Kanaad Rampurkar of
BE-II ERP Roll No. 35, 65, 32 resp. Have done

“SECURE UPLOAD AND DOWNLOAD OF FILES ON LOCAL

SERVER WITH UUID ENCRYPTION”

at All India Shri Shivaji Memorial Society’s Institute of Information

Technology, Pune in the partial fulfillment of the Bachelors Degree in
Computer Engineering

Prof. Pradnya Ghulane Dr. S.N

Zaware Internal Guide Head of the
Department
Computer Engineering

Place: PUNE Seal/Stamp of the

college Date:

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ABSTRACT

In recent times, the concept of Cloud Computing has gained immense

popularity and momentum. Simply put, cloud computing is the
delivery of computing ser- vices—including servers, storage,
databases, networking, software, analytics, and in- telligence—over
the Internet (“the cloud”) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources,
and economies of scale. You typically pay only for cloud services you
use, helping lower your operating costs, run your infrastructure more
efficiently and scale as your business needs change. The main pillars of
cloud computing are : Storage, Compute, and Networking. Out of
these, Data storage in particular, is a very important and valuable
research field in cloud computing. Cloud storage security is now hugely
pop- ular. A recent survey showed that 95% of IT professionals are
using cloud storage. This is not just a tech fad, it’s here to stay. That
number is expected to continue to grow rapidly. Storing, organizing,
and accessing your digital files, photos, and videos in a central and
secure storage space can be challenging. It’s often difficult to store
documents efficiently without taking up vast amounts of physical
space for records storage or using valuable resources for records
management. As a result, document management systems have moved
online to cloud file storage systems that also include document scanning
tools and built-in document retention features. With more people
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opting to go paperless or work exclusively in the cloud, online

document storage can be the solution that provides you with
organized, accessible files anywhere you are. In this Mini-Project, we
have implemented a local file storage system that acts as a cloud to
store documents, images, videos files, audio files, etc on the local
server. It is implemented as a secure file storage system with the help
of UUID encryption in Django.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

There is always a sense of gratitude which people express towards

other for their help and supervision in achieving the goals. This formal
piece of acknowledgement is an attempt to express the feeling of
gratitude towards people who helped us in successfully completing our
mini project. We would like to express my deepest grat- itude to Prof.
Pradnya Ghulane and Prof. Amrapali Chavan - our guides - for their
constant co-operation.They were always there with competent
guidance and valuable suggestions throughout the pursuance of this
presentation.
We would also like to appreciate all the respondents and group
members whose responses and coordination were of utmost
importance and who helped us a lot in the collection necessary
information. Above all no words can express our feelings to our
parents,friends and all those people who supported us during the
course of our mini project.

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Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

Cloud computing arises from the combination of the traditional

computer technol- ogy and network technology, such as grid
computing, distributed computing, parallel computing, utility
computing, virtualization. One of the core concept of cloud com-
puting is reducing the processing burden on user’s terminals through
continuously enhancing the clouds’ handling capacity. Eventually user’s
terminals are simplified into a simple input and output devices. Users
can use the powerful computing and processing function on clouds and
they can order their service from the cloud accord- ing to their own
needs.
Cloud storage is a system that provides functions such as data storage
and business access. It assembles a large number of different types of
storage devices through the application software which are based on
the functions of the cluster applications, grid techniques, distributed
file systems, etc. Cloud storage can be simply understood as the
storage in cloud computing, and also can be considered to be a cloud
comput- ing system equipped with large capacity storage. Cloud
storage system architecture mainly includes storage layer, basic

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management layer, application interface layer and access layer.

1.1 Benefits of Cloud Storage Security

1. Data Encryption: Data you store on a cloud can be encrypted

either before or after you send it, providing added protection.
This means that your data can only be accessed by the people you
want it to, even if your device is stolen. Your privacy is completely
protected and you don’t need to worry about your data being
stolen or sold off.

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2. Having a Back-Up: Storing all your data on one server is very

risky. If it fails for any reason, you could lose everything in an
instant. Clouds are backed up to multiple servers, so you never
need to worry about losing the information you keep on them. If
one server crashes, your data will still be safely stored in multiple
other locations. This significantly reduces the risk of data loss.
Hardware failure and technical glitches are completely
unpredictable, and there’s no reason to leave yourself vulnerable
to them when there’s cloud storage available.

3. Protect Against Hackers and Malware: According to Duke

University, 80% of all US companies have suffered from some kind
of hacking, so failing to protect yourself from the possibility is
extremely dangerous. However, hacking isn’t your only concern.
Your company could also suffer data loss as a result of a server
failure or human error.With cloud storage, you’re protected from
all of those things.

4. Save Money: Cloud storage is not only safe and secure, it’s also
cost-effective. Switching to cloud storage could save you a
considerable about of money. Over- heads reduce as it reduces the
need for power and staff to support in-house servers. Overall,
your storage costs could drop by up to 87%.

5. Easier to Share and Access Files: Along with cloud storage security
advan- tages, this is one of the top reasons why everyone is using
clouds. Some cloud systems also allow real-time collaboration, so
more than one person can make changes to a file at any one
time. This is perfect for project management and teamwork
scenarios.

6. It’s Organized: You can control what information is stored and

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how. Within the cloud, you can create folders to organize your
information in a way that suits you. That way, it’s easy for you to
navigate and access.

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Chapter
2
PROBLEM DEFINITION

Setup your own cloud for Software as a Service (SaaS) over the existing
LAN in your laboratory. In this assignment you have to write your
own code for cloud controller using open source technologies without
HDFS. Implement the basic operations may be like to upload and
download file on/from cloud in encrypted form.

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Chapter
3
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

VS-Code: Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source

code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for
Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for
JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.JS and has a rich ecosystem of
extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Java, Python,
PHP, Go) and runtimes (such as .NET and Unity).

OS: Windows 7/8/10, MacOS, Linux or Unix system

Frameworks and Languages:

– Frontend: HTML, CSS

– Backend: Python, Django, UUID

Internet Browsers: Google Chrome / Mozilla Firefox

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Chapter
4
METHODOLOGY

For our Mini Project, we have made a WebApp using HTML5, CSS,
Python, Django. Additionally, we have also made use of the UUID
module in Python for the purpose of security and privacy. The WebApp
provides a GUI where the user can view the Dashboard where all the
files are to be uploaded and downloaded from.

4.1 Functionality

This WebApp performs the following functions:

1.Upload Files:
When a user wants to upload a file, they have to click on the
’Upload’ option, after which they can select a file of their
choice(Document, Audio, Video, Image, etc) and give the file a
new name by which they want to store on the server. After
clicking on Submit, a unique security key for that file is
generated. The user should take note of this key, as without
entering this key in the future, they cannot view/download that
particular file.

2.Download Files:
When a user wants to download a file enlisted on the server, they
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must click on the ’Download’
4 option, after which they will be
presented with a text area wherein they would have to enter the
unique security that was alloted to that file. Upon successfully
entering the right key, the file gets downloaded, else they get
’Credentials did not match’ error.

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4.2 Where the file is getting stored

In order to save the uploaded files, the data needs to be stored

somewhere. By default, if an uploaded file is smaller than 2.5
megabytes, Django will hold the entire contents of the upload in
memory. This means that saving the file involves only a read from
memory and a write to disk and thus is very fast. However, if an
uploaded file is too large, Django will write the uploaded file to a
temporary file stored in your system’s temporary directory.

4.3 How the security key is generated

UUID, Universal Unique Identifier, is a python library which helps in

generating random objects of 128 bits as ids. This module provides
immutable UUID objects (the UUID class) and the functions uuid1(),
uuid3(), uuid4(), uuid5() for generating version 1, 3, 4, and 5 UUIDs
as specified in RFC 4122. If all you want is a unique ID, you should
probably call uuid1() or uuid4(). uuid1() may compromise privacy
since it creates a UUID containing the computer’s network address.
uuid4() creates a random UUID. Which is why we use uuid4() for this
project, as it is much more secure.

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Chapter 5 IMPLEMENTATION

AND OUTPUT

We have implemented the Mini-Project as demonstrated in the following steps:

5.1 File Upload

1. Click on the blue ‘Upload’ button.

2.A sidebar where the option of choosing the file to be uploaded will
pop-up. Click on ‘Browse’ to select the file that is to be uploaded.

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3. Select the file to be uploaded from your local computer.

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4. Rename the file for security purposes.

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5.A message will pop-up saying that the file has been uploaded
successfully, and this pop-up will also contain the unique security
key for the file.

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6.Since it is only a one-time flash message, upon reloading, the key will
disappear.

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5.2 File Download

1. Click on ‘Download’ button adjacent to the file you would like to

download. A sidebar will popup where the the dedicated security

key of the respective file is to be entered in order to download it.

2. If the user enters the incorrect key, a message will pop-up

saying ‘Credentials did not match’.

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3. When the user enters the security key of the file correctly, you
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get the message ‘Your File is getting Downloaded. Click here.’

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4. When the user click on ‘Click Here’, the file gets downloaded successfully.

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Chapter
6
CONCLUSION

Thus we have demonstrated how we can set up a cloud on the local

server by using Python, Django, HTML5, and CSS by creating a file
storage web application that has the functionality to upload and
download files securely by leveraging UUID encryption provided by the
UUID library, executed in the Django Framework.

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Bibliography

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257723864 Research on

Cloud Data Storage Techno

[2] https://www.hubstor.net/

blog/cloud-storage-security-important/

[3]https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/overview/what-is-

cloud-computing/

[4]https://www.dropbox.com/features/cloud-

storage/document-storage

[5]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud computing

[6]https://docs.python.org/2/library/uuid.html

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