Identity-Based Authentication Mechanism for Secure Information Sharing in the Maritime Transport System

Abstract

About 70% of the earth's surface is covered with water, and providing safe transportation in this vast area is the responsibility of the maritime transportation system. The maritime transportation system provides safety to the vessel's passengers, manages the route of the vessels to avoid collision, and monitors the vessel's condition during the journey. All tasks performed by the maritime transport system require continuous monitoring of the vessel performance, and for this, different IoT devices are installed on the vessel board. The IoT devices collect data related to the physical parameters of the vessel and share it with the coast-side servers. As the shared data contains confidential information about the vessel, there is a need for secure data sharing techniques, allowing only the authenticated personals to access the data received from the maritime IoT devices. In this context, we developed an identity-based secure information sharing scheme for the maritime transport system that maintains proper authentication measures. Our proposed approach uses the concept of identity-based encryption for authentication management. Our proposed approach is IND-sID-CCA secure and works efficiently with maritime IoT devices.