A Lightweight Cryptographic Protocol with Certificateless Signature for the Internet of Things

The universality of smart-devices has brought rapid development and the significant advancement of ubiquitous applications for the Internet of Things (IoT). Designing new types of IoT-compatible cryptographic protocols has become a more popular way to secure IoT-based applications. Significant attention has been dedicated to the challenge of implementing a lightweight and secure cryptographic protocol for IoT devices. In this study, we propose a lightweight cryptographic protocol integrating certificateless signature and bilinear pairing crypto-primitives. In the proposed protocol, we elegantly refine the processes to account for computation-limited IoT devices during security operations. Rigorous security analyses are conducted to guarantee the robustness of the proposed cryptographic protocol. In addition, we demonstrate a thorough performance evaluation, where an IoT-based test-bed, i.e., the Raspberry PI, is simulated as the underlying platform of the implementation of our proposed cryptographic protocol. The results show the practicability of the proposed protocol.

[1]  Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo,et al.  Privacy-preserving certificateless provable data possession scheme for big data storage on cloud , 2017, Appl. Math. Comput..

[2]  Peng Gong,et al.  Further improvement of a certificateless signature scheme without pairing , 2014, Int. J. Commun. Syst..

[3]  Jie Cui,et al.  An efficient certificateless aggregate signature without pairings for vehicular ad hoc networks , 2018, Inf. Sci..

[4]  Ashutosh Saxena,et al.  An Efficient Certificateless Signature Scheme , 2005, CIS.

[5]  Pil Joong Lee,et al.  Generic Construction of Certificateless Signature , 2004, ACISP.

[6]  Yi Mu,et al.  Certificateless Signatures: New Schemes and Security Models , 2012, Comput. J..

[7]  Jia-Lun Tsai,et al.  Weaknesses and improvements of an efficient certificateless signature scheme without using bilinear pairings , 2014, Int. J. Commun. Syst..

[8]  Jacques Stern,et al.  Security Proofs for Signature Schemes , 1996, EUROCRYPT.

[9]  Xiaotie Deng,et al.  Key Replacement Attack Against a Generic Construction of Certificateless Signature , 2006, ACISP.

[10]  Kefei Chen,et al.  A Modified Efficient Certificateless Signature Scheme without Bilinear Pairings , 2015, 2015 International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems.

[11]  Yi Mu,et al.  Certificateless Signature Revisited , 2007, ACISP.

[12]  Rui Zhang,et al.  An efficient and provably‐secure certificateless signature scheme without bilinear pairings , 2012, Int. J. Commun. Syst..

[13]  Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo,et al.  An efficient provably-secure certificateless signature scheme for Internet-of-Things deployment , 2018, Ad Hoc Networks.

[14]  Kuo-Yu Tsai,et al.  An efficient certificateless signature scheme without bilinear pairings , 2014, Multimedia Tools and Applications.

[15]  Cao Xue-fei,et al.  An Attack on a Certificateless Signature Scheme and Its Improvement , 2008 .

[16]  Yi Mu,et al.  On the Security of Certificateless Signature Schemes from Asiacrypt 2003 , 2005, CANS.

[17]  Chunhua Su,et al.  A Novel Certificateless Signature Scheme for Smart Objects in the Internet-of-Things , 2017, Sensors.

[18]  Kenneth G. Paterson,et al.  Certificateless Public Key Cryptography , 2003 .