Light-Weight Key Establishment Mechanism for Secure Communication Between IoT Devices and Cloud

Author(s):  
Syam Prasad Gudapati ◽  
Vidya Gaikwad

Internet of Things (IoT) becomes part of our daily life. IoT has greatly uplifted the human life and has touched many aspect in our life style. IoT devices are sophisticated lowend device having limited computational and energy resources. Most of the cryptographic algorithms are based on complex mathematical calculation which is not feasible to be computed on IoT devices. Hence presently IoT devices lack strong security features. Security and privacy are becoming the real concern for IoT devices. In this paper we are exploring the various cryptographic algorithm which can be used for IoT device authentication and secure communication. The overall system is designed considering the light weight factor, scalability, time complexity and ease of implementation


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (22) ◽  
pp. 6546
Author(s):  
Kazi Masum Sadique ◽  
Rahim Rahmani ◽  
Paul Johannesson

The Internet of things (IoT) will accommodate several billions of devices to the Internet to enhance human society as well as to improve the quality of living. A huge number of sensors, actuators, gateways, servers, and related end-user applications will be connected to the Internet. All these entities require identities to communicate with each other. The communicating devices may have mobility and currently, the only main identity solution is IP based identity management which is not suitable for the authentication and authorization of the heterogeneous IoT devices. Sometimes devices and applications need to communicate in real-time to make decisions within very short times. Most of the recently proposed solutions for identity management are cloud-based. Those cloud-based identity management solutions are not feasible for heterogeneous IoT devices. In this paper, we have proposed an edge-fog based decentralized identity management and authentication solution for IoT devices (IoTD) and edge IoT gateways (EIoTG). We have also presented a secure communication protocol for communication between edge IoT devices and edge IoT gateways. The proposed security protocols are verified using Scyther formal verification tool, which is a popular tool for automated verification of security protocols. The proposed model is specified using the PROMELA language. SPIN model checker is used to confirm the specification of the proposed model. The results show different message flows without any error.


Author(s):  
Hamza Sajjad Ahmad ◽  
Muhammad Junaid Arshad ◽  
Muhammad Sohail Akram

To send data over the network, devices need to authenticate themselves within the network. After authentication, the device will be able to send the data in-network. After authentication, secure communication of devices is an important task that is done with an encryption method. IoT network devices have a very small circuit with low resources and low computation power. By considering low power, less memory, low computation, and all the aspect of IoT devices, an encryption technique is needed that is suitable for this type of device. As IoT networks are heterogeneous, each device has different hardware properties, and all the devices are not on one scale. To make IoT networks secure, this paper starts with the secure authentication mechanism to verify the device that wants to be a part of the network. After that, an encryption algorithm is presented that will make the communication secure. This encryption algorithm is designed by considering all the important aspects of IoT devices (low computation, low memory, and cost).


IEEE Access ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 170615-170628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarmadullah Khan ◽  
Ahmed Ibrahim Alzahrani ◽  
Osama Alfarraj ◽  
Nasser Alalwan ◽  
Ali H. Al-Bayatti

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.6) ◽  
pp. 398
Author(s):  
Sankaranarayanan P.J ◽  
Geogen George

A blockchain is a decentralized, disseminated and digital ledger that can’t be altered retroactively without modifying every single blocks and the consensus of the network. Blockchain can be used in smart contracts, Banks, IoT devices, Database management, etc., Due to recent times flaws and leakage of Aadhaar information (Aadhaar which is the largest government databases of the Indian citizens) in Internet the security and privacy of Aadhaar became questionable. In order to ensure the security of Aadhaar, Blockchain has the potential to overcome security and privacy challenges in Aadhaar. In this project we are going to create a Blockchain for Aadhaar database and implement light weight algorithm for efficiency, optimization and scalability along with the Blockchain securing algorithm. 


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.6) ◽  
pp. 388
Author(s):  
G. A. Vani ◽  
M. Metilda Florence

The emergence of Internet of things (IoT) is due to its   ability to dutifully transfer the data through a network. Now the concern is that security is not considered as main priority while developing the product. IoT is prone to vulnerabilities where Botnet and DDoS kind of attacks are common and a major issue that has to be considered these days. Since IoT is in no way resistive to attacks, this paper is all about proposing a solution for the Distributed Denial of Services attack that happens on IoT platform. Light weight authentication is necessary for any IoT devices because to reduce the power consumption and increase the processing speed of the device [16]. The experimental setup is built on OS named Contiki with cooja simulator that suits to all the devices that are in the IoT environment.   


Author(s):  
Hayoung Oh ◽  
Sangsoon Lim

<p><span lang="EN-US">The primary task for IoT-based hyper-connectivity communications lies in the development of direct communications technique among IoT devices in RPL (Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks) environment without the aid from infras such as access points, base stations etc. In a low-power and lossy wireless network, IoT devices and routers cannot keep the original path toward the destination since they have the limited memory, except for a limited number of the default router information.. Different from the previous light-weight routing protocols focusing on the reduction of the control messages, the proposed scheme provides the light-weight IPv6 address auto-configuration, IPv6 neighbor discovery and routing protocol in a IoT capable infra-less wireless networks with the bloom filer and enhanced rank concepts. And for the first time we evaluate our proposed scheme based on the modeling of various probability distributions in the IoT environments with the lossy wireless link. Specifically, the proposed enhanced RPL based light-weight routing protocol improves the robustness with the multi-paths locally established based on the enhanced rank concepts even though lossy wireless links are existed. We showed the improvements of the proposed scheme up to 40% than the RPL based protocol.</span></p>


Author(s):  
Emil Bejder ◽  
Adam Krog Mathiasen ◽  
Michele De Donno ◽  
Nicola Dragoni ◽  
Xenofon Fafoutis

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