Manmohan Sharma

Work place: School of Computer Application, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara-144411, Punjab, India.

E-mail: manmohan.sharma71@gmail.com

Website: 0000-0001-9445-5898

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Biography

Dr. Manmohan Sharma is Professor in the School of Computer Applications at Lovely Professional University with over 26 years of experience in academics, research, and administration. He received his Ph.D. in Wireless Mobile Networks from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University in 2014. His research interests include Wireless Mobile Networks, Mobile Cloud Computing, Data Science, and Machine Learning. He has authored/co-authored 68+ research papers, holds 4 patents and 3 copyrights, and has successfully supervised 10 Ph.D. and 3 M.Phil. scholars. He is actively associated with professional bodies including IEEE, Association for Computing Machinery, and Computer Society of India.. He can be contacted via email at manmohan.sharma71@gmail.com

Author Articles
Enhancing Cloud Storage Security Using Multi-User Biometric Encryption with Threshold Access Control

By Sahil Rampal Manmohan Sharma Parul Khurana Mukesh Kumar

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijwmt.2026.03.10, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2026

Cloud computing has become an essential platform for business data storage and application management due to its scalability, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness. However, ensuring the security and privacy of sensitive cloud data remains a major challenge because cloud users do not have direct control over their stored information. Traditional single-biometric encryption approaches often suffer from issues such as biometric variability, spoofing risks, and single-point failure. To address these limitations, this paper proposes a multi-user multi-modal biometric encryption framework integrated with threshold-based access control for securing business data stored in cloud environments. In the proposed approach, fingerprint and audio biometric modalities are pre-processed to extract privacy-preserving feature vectors, which are fused to generate individual user-keys using a Hash-Based Key Derivation Function (HKDF). Subsequently, a master encryption key is generated through Shamir’s Secret Sharing and Lagrange interpolation mechanisms, where only a predefined threshold number of valid user-keys can reconstruct the master key for decryption. AES symmetric encryption is employed to secure the business data before cloud storage. Experimental evaluation was performed using the FVC2002 fingerprint dataset and Mozilla CV-Corpus audio dataset. The generated biometric master-key successfully passed Shannon Entropy, Chi-Square, Monte Carlo Pi, and decryption validation tests, demonstrating improved randomness, reliability, and resistance against unauthorized access. The proposed framework effectively eliminates single-point failure issues and enhances secure cloud data access through threshold-based biometric authentication.

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