Abstract
Location-based service (LBS) in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) has significantly benefited information acquisition from geographically-based social networking. Authentication guarantees the unforgeability and the effectiveness of the LBS information. Unfortunately, owing to a large quantity of redundant or useless LBS messages disseminated in VANETs, the heavy authentication overhead of the existing work adopting a periodically released authentication key, filtering with message identifiers or exploiting public key (fully) homomorphic encryption (FHE), is either intolerable by resource-constrained on-board units (OBUs) or inappropriate to the realtime controlling requirement for VANETs. In this paper, an efficient multi-key secure outsourced computation scheme MSOC without exploiting public key FHE is first proposed, in the setting of two non-colluding servers, namely the cloud and the cryptographic service provider (CSP). Then, based on MSOC, an efficient and secure comparison protocol LSCP is devised, without the interaction between the server and the users. Furthermore, a lightweight privacy-preserving authentication protocol LPPA for LBS in VANETs is proposed, by eliminating duplicate and useless encrypted LBS messages before authentication is executed, through a newly devised efficient privacy-preserving information filtering system. Both user’s location privacy and interest privacy are well protected against even the collusion between the roadside units (RSUs) serving as the cloud (or CSP) and malicious users. Especially, the property of ciphertext re-encryption of our proposed MSOC also guarantees the interest pattern privacy whether two users accept the same LBS information. Finally, formal security proof and extensive simulation results verify the effectiveness and practicability of our proposed LPPA.
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