scholarly journals Decentralized Data Aggregation: A New Secure Framework Based on Lightweight Cryptographic Algorithms

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Xin Xie ◽  
Yu-Chi Chen
Keyword(s):  
Data Aggregation ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Differential Privacy ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Cryptographic Primitives ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
System A ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Access Data ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Blockchain has become very popular and suitable to the Internet of Things (IoT) field due to its nontamperability and decentralization properties. The number of IoT devices and leaders (who own IoT devices) is increased exponentially, and thus, data privacy and security are undoubtedly significant concerns. In this paper, we summarize some issues for the BeeKeeper system, a blockchain-based IoT system, proposed by Zhou et al., and then aim for presenting an improved solution for decentralized data aggregation (DDA) on IoT. Firstly, we formally state the security requirements of DDA. Secondly, we propose our basic DDA system by using secret sharing to improve its efficiency and smart contracts as the computing processors. Moreover, the proposed full-fledged system achieves data sharing (e.g., a leader to access data of others’ devices), which is realized by using local differential privacy and cryptographic primitives such as token-based encryption. Finally, to show the feasibility, we provide some implementations and experiments for the DDA systems.

A Survey of Authentication Schemes in the Internet of Things

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmine Labiod ◽  
Abdelaziz Amara Korba ◽  
Nacira Ghoualmi-Zine
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Authentication Schemes ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Privacy Issues ◽  
The Internet Of Things

In the recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been widely deployed in different daily life aspects such as home automation, electronic health, the electric grid, etc. Nevertheless, the IoT paradigm raises major security and privacy issues. To secure the IoT devices, many research works have been conducted to counter those issues and discover a better way to remove those risks, or at least reduce their effects on the user's privacy and security requirements. This article mainly focuses on a critical review of the recent authentication techniques for IoT devices. First, this research presents a taxonomy of the current cryptography-based authentication schemes for IoT. In addition, this is followed by a discussion of the limitations, advantages, objectives, and attacks supported of current cryptography-based authentication schemes. Finally, the authors make in-depth study on the most relevant authentication schemes for IoT in the context of users, devices, and architecture that are needed to secure IoT environments and that are needed for improving IoT security and items to be addressed in the future.

IoT ecosystem faces fragmented future

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Subject IoT ecosystem. Significance The market for the Internet of Things (IoT) or connected devices is expanding rapidly, with no manufacturer currently forecast to dominate the supply chain. This has fragmented the emerging IoT ecosystem, triggering questions about interoperability and cybersecurity of IoT devices. Impacts Firms in manufacturing, transportation and logistics and utilities are expected to see the highest IoT spending in coming years. The pace of IoT adoption is inextricably linked to that of related technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Data privacy and security will be the greatest constraint to IoT adoption.

A Survey of Authentication Schemes in the Internet of Things

2021 ◽  
pp. 1715-1732
Author(s):  
Yasmine Labiod ◽  
Abdelaziz Amara Korba ◽  
Nacira Ghoualmi-Zine
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Authentication Schemes ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Privacy Issues ◽  
The Internet Of Things

In the recent years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been widely deployed in different daily life aspects such as home automation, electronic health, the electric grid, etc. Nevertheless, the IoT paradigm raises major security and privacy issues. To secure the IoT devices, many research works have been conducted to counter those issues and discover a better way to remove those risks, or at least reduce their effects on the user's privacy and security requirements. This article mainly focuses on a critical review of the recent authentication techniques for IoT devices. First, this research presents a taxonomy of the current cryptography-based authentication schemes for IoT. In addition, this is followed by a discussion of the limitations, advantages, objectives, and attacks supported of current cryptography-based authentication schemes. Finally, the authors make in-depth study on the most relevant authentication schemes for IoT in the context of users, devices, and architecture that are needed to secure IoT environments and that are needed for improving IoT security and items to be addressed in the future.

scholarly journals Convergence between Blockchain and the Internet of Things

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-53
Author(s):  
Alma Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Data Privacy ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Multiple Regression Model ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Smart Contracts ◽  
Consensus Protocol ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Convergence Model ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a particular convergencemodel for IoT and blockchain. Multiple regression model was selected to determine the effectiveof a specific convergence model. Three convergence models were selected for this study, includingthe hybrid approach, the IoT-blockchain approach, and the IoT-IoT approach. The findingsindicated that there are issues with convergence between two different technologies. The otherfinding was that the hybrid model provided the best convergence platform for integrating IoT withblockchain. Regarding the IoT and blockchain, convergence challenges included the limitedcapacity of IoT devices to handle the nature of distributed ledgers. The recommendation is that theaspects of traditional blockchain should be redesigned because of new requirements of IoT,including smart contracts, consensus protocol, data privacy, and security.

scholarly journals Enabling privacy and security in Cloud of Things: Architecture, applications, security & privacy challenges

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ado Adamou Abba Ari ◽  
Olga Kengni Ngangmo ◽  
Chafiq Titouna ◽  
Ousmane Thiare ◽  
Kolyang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Privacy ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Important Amount ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Privacy Issues ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The Cloud of Things (IoT) that refers to the integration of the Cloud Computing (CC) and the Internet of Things (IoT), has dramatically changed the way treatments are done in the ubiquitous computing world. This integration has become imperative because the important amount of data generated by IoT devices needs the CC as a storage and processing infrastructure. Unfortunately, security issues in CoT remain more critical since users and IoT devices continue to share computing as well as networking resources remotely. Moreover, preserving data privacy in such an environment is also a critical concern. Therefore, the CoT is continuously growing up security and privacy issues. This paper focused on security and privacy considerations by analyzing some potential challenges and risks that need to be resolved. To achieve that, the CoT architecture and existing applications have been investigated. Furthermore, a number of security as well as privacy concerns and issues as well as open challenges, are discussed in this work.

scholarly journals A Strongly Unforgeable Certificateless Signature Scheme and Its Application in IoT Environments

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 2692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaodong Yang ◽  
Xizhen Pei ◽  
Guilan Chen ◽  
Ting Li ◽  
Meiding Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Security Requirements ◽  
Widespread Application ◽  
Random Oracles ◽  
Replay Attacks ◽  
Security Research ◽  
Viable Solution ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Certificateless Signature ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Strong Unforgeability

With the widespread application of the Internet of Things (IoT), ensuring communication security for IoT devices is of considerable importance. Since IoT data are vulnerable to eavesdropping, tampering, forgery, and other attacks during an open network transmission, the integrity and authenticity of data are fundamental security requirements in the IoT. A certificateless signature (CLS) is a viable solution for providing data integrity, data authenticity, and identity identification in resource-constrained IoT devices. Therefore, designing a secure and efficient CLS scheme for IoT environments has become one of the main objectives of IoT security research. However, the existing CLS schemes rarely focus on strong unforgeability and replay attacks. Herein, we design a novel CLS scheme to protect the integrity and authenticity of IoT data. In addition to satisfying the strong unforgeability requirement, the proposed scheme also resists public key replacement attacks, malicious-but-passive key-generation-centre attacks, and replay attacks. Compared with other related CLS schemes without random oracles, our CLS scheme has a shorter private key, stronger security, and lower communication and computational costs.

scholarly journals Approaching the Communication Constraints of Ethereum-Based Decentralized Applications

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 2647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matevž Pustišek ◽  
Anton Umek ◽  
Andrej Kos
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Data Traffic ◽  
High Coverage ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Remote Server ◽  
Small Influence ◽  
Store Location ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Those working on Blockchain technologies have described several new innovative directions and novel services in the Internet of things (IoT), including decentralized trust, trusted and verifiable execution of smart contracts, and machine-to-machine communications and automation that reach beyond the mere exchange of data. However, applying blockchain principles in the IoT is a challenge due to the constraints of the end devices. Because of fierce cost pressure, the hardware resources in these devices are usually reduced to the minimum necessary for operation. To achieve the high coverage needed, low bitrate mobile or wireless technologies are frequently applied, so the communication is often constrained, too. These constraints make the implementation of blockchain nodes for IoT as standalone end-devices impractical or even impossible. We therefore investigated possible design approaches to decentralized applications based on the Ethereum blockchain for the IoT. We proposed and evaluated three application architectures differing in communication, computation, storage, and security requirements. In a pilot setup we measured and analyzed the data traffic needed to run the blockchain clients and their applications. We found out that with the appropriate designs and the remote server architecture we can strongly reduce the storage and communication requirements imposed on devices, with predictable security implications. Periodic device traffic is reduced to 2400 B/s (HTTP) and 170 B/s (Websocket) from about 18 kB/s in the standalone-device full client architecture. A notification about a captured blockchain event and the corresponding verification resulted in about 2000 B of data. A transaction sent from the application to the client resulted in an about 500 B (HTTP) and 300 B message (Websocket). The key store location, which affects the serialization of a transaction, only had a small influence on the transaction-related data. Raw transaction messages were 45 B larger than when passing the JSON transaction objects. These findings provide directions for fog/cloud IoT application designers to avoid unrealistic expectations imposed upon their IoT devices and blockchain technologies, and enable them to select the appropriate system design according to the intended use case and system constraints. However, for very low bit-rate communication networks, new communication protocols for device to blockchain-client need to be considered.

scholarly journals Achieving Incentive, Security, and Scalable Privacy Protection in Mobile Crowdsensing Services

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinbo Xiong ◽  
Rong Ma ◽  
Lei Chen ◽  
Youliang Tian ◽  
Li Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Privacy ◽  
Differential Privacy ◽  
Homomorphic Encryption ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Mobile Crowdsensing ◽  
Sensing Data ◽  
Noise Data ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Further Development ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Mobile crowdsensing as a novel service schema of the Internet of Things (IoT) provides an innovative way to implement ubiquitous social sensing. How to establish an effective mechanism to improve the participation of sensing users and the authenticity of sensing data, protect the users’ data privacy, and prevent malicious users from providing false data are among the urgent problems in mobile crowdsensing services in IoT. These issues raise a gargantuan challenge hindering the further development of mobile crowdsensing. In order to tackle the above issues, in this paper, we propose a reliable hybrid incentive mechanism for enhancing crowdsensing participations by encouraging and stimulating sensing users with both reputation and service returns in mobile crowdsensing tasks. Moreover, we propose a privacy preserving data aggregation scheme, where the mediator and/or sensing users may not be fully trusted. In this scheme, differential privacy mechanism is utilized through allowing different sensing users to add noise data, then employing homomorphic encryption for protecting the sensing data, and finally uploading ciphertext to the mediator, who is able to obtain the collection of ciphertext of the sensing data without actual decryption. Even in the case of partial sensing data leakage, differential privacy mechanism can still ensure the security of the sensing user’s privacy. Finally, we introduce a novel secure multiparty auction mechanism based on the auction game theory and secure multiparty computation, which effectively solves the problem of prisoners’ dilemma incurred in the sensing data transaction between the service provider and mediator. Security analysis and performance evaluation demonstrate that the proposed scheme is secure and efficient.

Image Validation with Virtualization in Blockchain Based Internet of Things

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 2388-2395
Author(s):  
M. Vivek Anand ◽  
S. Vijayalakshmi
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Intelligence Agency ◽  
Cyber Intelligence ◽  
Peer To Peer Networks ◽  
Secure Environment ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Processing Techniques ◽  
The Internet Of Things

IoT is changing the way for a world, where many of our daily objects will be connected with each other and will interact with their environment in order to collect information and automate certain tasks. IoT requires seamless authentication, data privacy, security, robustness against attacks, easy deployment, and self-maintenance. Protecting data in the internet of things is essential for making the IoT environment secure. In order to secure the data on the internet of things, the blockchain will provide distributed peer to peer networks. Blockchain-based internet of things is making a secure environment in the IoT environment. Data are stored in the form of images in IoT devices that are captured in various locations in the IoT environment for processing. Images are stored as data in the blockchain and it acts as a transaction. This paper expresses the environment of blockchain-based internet of things with image validation. This paper will explain this domain with an example of a criminal’s image identification with image processing techniques to provide better service to the cyber intelligence agency to find criminals easily. The identification of criminals is done by comparing the images of the criminals’ identification.

scholarly journals Motion Detection to Preserve Personal Privacy from Surveillance Data using Contrary Motion

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 3892-3895
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Privacy Preservation ◽  
Differential Privacy ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Value Added ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Internet of Things network today naturally is one of the huge quantities of devices from sensors linked through the communication framework to give value added service to the society and mankind. That allows equipment to be connected at anytime with anything rather using network and service. By 2020 there will be 50 to 100 billion devices connected to Internet and will generate heavy data that is to be analyzed for knowledge mining is a forecast. The data collected from individual devices of IoT is not going to give sufficient information to perform any type of analysis like disaster management, sentiment analysis, and smart cities and on surveillance. Privacy and Security related research increasing from last few years. IoT generated data is very huge, and the existing mechanisms like k- anonymity, l-diversity and differential privacy were not able to address these personal privacy issues because the Internet of Things Era is more vulnerable than the Internet Era [10][20]. To solve the personal privacy related problems researchers and IT professionals have to pay more attention to derive policies and to address the key issues of personal privacy preservation, so the utility and trade off will be increased to the Internet of Things applications. Personal Privacy Preserving Data Publication (PPPDP) is the area where the problems are identified and fixed in this IoT Era to ensure better personal privacy.

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