Configurable anonymous authentication schemes for the internet of things (IoT)

Amar Rasheed, Ray R. Hashemi, Ayman Bagabas, Jeffrey Young, Chanukya Badri, Keyur Patel

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Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized the way of how pervasive computing devices communicate and disseminate information over the global network. A plethora of user data is collected and logged daily into cloud-based servers. Such data can be analyzed by the IoT infrastructure to capture users' behaviors (e.g. users' location, tagging of smart home occupancy). This brings a new set of security challenges, specifically user anonymity. Existing access control and authentication technologies failed to support user anonymity. They relied on the surrendering of the device/user authentication parameters to the trusted server, which hence could be utilized by the IoT infrastructure to track users' behavioral patterns. This paper, presents two novel configurable privacy-preserving authentication schemes. User anonymity capabilities were incorporated into our proposed authentication schemes through the implementation of two crypto-based approaches (i) Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) and (ii) Verifiable Common Secret Encoding (VCSE). We consider a user-oriented approach when determining user anonymity. The proposed authentication schemes are dynamically capable of supporting various levels of user privacy based on the user preferences. To validate the two schemes, they were fully implemented and deployed on an IoT testbed. We have tested the performance of each proposed schemes in terms of power consumption and computation time. Based on our performance evaluation results, the proposed ZKP-based approach provides better performance compared to the VCSE-based approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE International Conference on RFID, RFID 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728112107
DOIs
StatePublished - May 21 2019
Event13th Annual IEEE International Conference on RFID, RFID 2019 - Phoenix, United States
Duration: Apr 2 2019Apr 4 2019

Publication series

Name2019 IEEE International Conference on RFID, RFID 2019

Conference

Conference13th Annual IEEE International Conference on RFID, RFID 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhoenix
Period04/2/1904/4/19

Keywords

  • Anonymity
  • IoT authentication
  • Privacy

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