A Lightweight Provably Secure Digital Short-Signature Technique Using Extended Chaotic Maps for Human-Centered IoT Systems

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) consists of numerous smart devices for sharing sensed data through the availability of online services. Direct communication by smart devices with people to identify parameters of healthcare and send them to a central repository is crucial. There is a need to secure messages among the sender and recipient during data exchange in order to tackle the malicious attacks by human. To provide secure communication, various signature-based schemes are presented in the literature. However, smart devices require lightweight tasks by guaranteeing essential security strengths. The main difficulty in signature-based methods is more computational cost incurred for signature and verification stages involving large numbers. This article introduces a lightweight provably secure short digital signature technique for safe communication amongst smart devices in human-centered IoT (HCIoT), the security of which is closely related to an extended chaotic maps assumption in a random oracle model (ROM). Moreover, we used less comprehensive operations to accomplish processes of verification and signing, similar to human signing on legitimate documents and then check as per witness. The proposed technique provides a stronger guarantee of protection than existing signature techniques. The key advantage of the presented technique over the DSA techniques is that it takes less computation in the verification stage and signing length; it retains the degree of protection. The presented short signature takes less bandwidth for communication, storage, and computing resources.