INTRODUCTION

The pandemic has left many a industry in a conundrum so as to how to adapt to the radical change. Many industries has fast changed their basic operational mode to work from home. However, educare has been in the middle of this crisis and still finding ways to accommodate the traditional and modern pedagogy in the online mode of teaching. When data goes online on a streaming platform, its security becomes a prime challenge for the provider as well as the user. Many methods exist and each has its own pros and cons.

In this research paper, based on the studies conducted by the same authors (Ravish & Thippeswamy, 2020) (Ravish & Thippeswamy, 2020) and (Ravish & Thippeswamy, 2021), a machine learning system capable of suggesting a suitable cryptosystem for use in cloud based educare systems. This is so because Initially a set of systems were compared for their parameters for common sized files with mixed content as shown in Table 1 from the work presented in (Ravish et al., 2021). On top of the results from (Ravish et al., 2021), a decision tree algorithm was applied and best suited cryptosystem was suggested by the algorithm. The method and results are presented in the next sections.

The list of methods or cryptosystems to protect data in clouds is a rather long one (Padhy, Patra, & Satapathy, 2011). However, since education platforms on cloud tend to require faster encryption with above average security whereas other data sharing systems require high security albeit the time consumption;

For the data in Table 1 , a radar plot is shown below to help understand the various parameters and how they're affected by different algorithms.

The correlation from the graph makes it evident that on any time bound system the best bets are on bit wise stream cipher and/or secure session layer.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

The data for the research work is from Harsha S etal (Harsha, Bhaskar, & Sheshaprakash, 2015) (S, Bhaskar, Sheshaprakash, & Rao, 2016) and the additional experiments were carried on a cloud simulation “CloudSim” a free cloud simulation platform. The method is iterated below.

The system is simulated as an online educational platform with multiple users accessing varied contents via a registered portal (Wallace, 2014). In a multi-user multi-service environment security issues rack up quite quickly and into large volumes (Ahmed & Hossain, j2014). The onus of protecting data as well as the user privacy is always on the service provider (, 2015). Using the methods listed in (Ravish et al., 2020) it was attempted to provide security and privacy to the data. The algorithm was designed to look into the type of data that needed to be encrypted and the time frame for the data delivery and make a decision based on the two in selecting a suitable cryptosystem.

The data usually contains text, images, formatted text, power point presentations, audio and video. This clearly places a rider on the type of cryptosystems one can choose from (, 2016) (Fu, Xu, Pao, & Wang, 2013). Also users with individual connection have different requirements from those with a Wi-Fi (Harsha, Nazim, Vallabh, & Rao, 2018). Hence the decision tree based algorithm was slightly altered to suite the requirement of this experimentation. The algorithm runs from the enterprise server on each request independently and unique decisions are provided each time. The training and testing samples have a ratio 80:20.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

The experiment was run on 1000 files with varying number of users as given in (Ravish et al., 2020). The conditions were varied for different requirements and speeds. The sample of data obtained from the results is shown below.

From the data presented in Table 2 , it can be seen clearly that as the number of requests increases, the accuracy improves and loss reduces drastically. The accuracy and loss plots are shown in Figure 2 .

The graphs show that over large number of requests (say 100000), loss reaches 0 and remains as the decision made by the algorithm suites the data as well as the requirement perfectly.

CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

From the experimental data it can be interpreted that an altered decision tree (S et al., 2016) can be utilized in place of a human choice with faster decisions and higher accuracy every time over large cloud based platforms for online education.

This work can further be continued and other decision making and decision support systems such as classification and regression algorithms can be experimented with to choose the best suited cryptosystems to cater to the ever increasing need for faster and secure data protection and privacy in cloud based online streaming platforms for educare, medicine, industry and any other business.