A remote attestation mechanism using group signature for the perception layer in centralized networking

Jing Huang,Jia Chen,Shen He,Zhe-Yuan Sun,Hui-Juan Zhang

doi:10.1186/s13638-022-02092-9

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s13638-022-02092-9

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Abstract

As the important transmission approach of the perception data, the security and privacy of the perception layer nodes have been paid more and more attention. To evaluate the credibility of the perception nodes and protect autologous identity privacy, a remote attestation mechanism using group signature (GS-RAM) for the perception layer of centralized networking is proposed in this paper. First, a RAM, based on the computational Diffie–Hellman (CDH) problem and GS, is established for the data source of the perception nodes. Second, the specific construction of the proposed GS-RAM is given to identify the trusted state of data sources without exposing the privacy of the perception nodes. Then, a strict security certification was carried out to verify the correctness, unforgeability, anonymity, traceability, unrelatedness, non-framing, anti-joint aggression and forward security of the proposed GS-RAM. Finally, simulation experiments are carried out to verify that the proposed scheme has better security and dynamic adaptability.

Highlights

1 Introduction In recent years, with the continuous development of the Internet of Things (IoT), the devices in the Internet of Things have become a digital carrier to drive the rapid development of economy
In terms of logical architecture, the Internet of Things can be divided into three layers, respectively, the perception layer responsible for information collection and terminal recognition, the network layer responsible for information transmission and processing, and the application layer responsible for intelligent control based on the network state combined with specific industries
The perception layer plays a core role in the Internet of Things

Summary

Introduction

With the continuous development of the Internet of Things (IoT), the devices in the Internet of Things have become a digital carrier to drive the rapid development of economy. A remote attestation can enable remote verification devices to verify the credibility of data source nodes This technology is a key security mechanism after the extension of trusted computing technology to the Internet of Things. Based on the trusted logical grouping of the perception layer [6], a remote attestation mechanism using group signature (GS-RAM) for the perception nodes of centralized networking is proposed to ensure the credibility and protect the privacy in this paper. Literature [11] proposed a attestation mechanism based on TPM to confirm platform identity by providing TPM data verification to users It authenticate itself by using a certificate to accomplish remote attestation. We need to study a remote attestation scheme for data sources, which applicable to the perception layer of the Internet of Things

Preliminary knowledge

Non-degeneration

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