Lightweight hybrid signature scheme for Internet of Thing based on bilinear mapping

Abstract

Most of the existing IoT communication encryption schemes have the following two problems: the sensor side needs to perform complex bilinear mapping calculations; most schemes separate key agreement and data encryption, which increases the user’s computational burden and management difficulty. This paper proposes a lightweight IoT hybrid signature scheme based on bilinear mapping. In terms of transmission efficiency, the calculation process of the bilinear map is transferred to the initialization phase of the system. The sensor side only needs low-cost operations such as hash mapping and exponential operation, which reduces the overall computing cost of the solution. In terms of security, the mathematical difficulty caused by the bilinear mapping calculation in the initialization phase is used to ensure the security of data transmission. In solving the problem of key management, the scheme uses the semi-trusted key generation center (KGC) and sensor ID to generate user session keys and data keys, which solves the public key authentication and key escrow problems of massive sensors in the Internet of Things.