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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-discrete-mathematical-sciences-and-cryptography</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0065</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0972-0529</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JDMSC-2755</article-id>
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        <article-title>A mathematical security framework for efficient data distribution in cloud computing using encrypted erasure-coded block transmission (SecureCloud-EC)</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Dwivedi</surname>
            <given-names>Kalpana</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Computer Science &amp; Engineering, Sharda School of Computing Science &amp; Engineering, Sharda University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, 201310, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Raj</surname>
            <given-names>Gaurav</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Computer Science &amp; Engineering, Sharda School of Computing Science &amp; Engineering, Sharda University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, 201310, India</aff>
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      <volume>29</volume>
      <issue>6</issue>
      <fpage>2489</fpage>
      <lpage>2502</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>20</day>
        <month>06</month>
        <year>2026</year>
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        <p>Efficient and safe data distribution is one of the pressing problems of current cloud-edge infrastructures, particularly when the networks become heterogeneous, nodes fail, and new security threats emerge. The present paper proposes the introduction of SecureCloud-EC, a novel framework for secure data distribution that combines the principles of erasure coding, block-level encrypted data engines, decentralised exchange of supplements, and lightweight verification of integrity to ensure the high-performance and reliable dissemination of content. The system utilises a (k,m) erasure-coding code to encode files into redundant blocks of coded data, enabling them to be distributed quickly and in parallel, and survive network failures. Coded blocks are also encrypted with a session-based AES key calculated using ECC, which ensures confidentiality during transport and storage.</p>
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        <kwd>Erasure coding</kwd>
        <kwd>Encrypted block transmission</kwd>
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