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Walshe, Marcus, Epiphaniou, Gregory, Al-Khateeb, Haider, Hammoudeh, Mohammad, Katos, Vasilios and Dehghantanha, Ali (2019) Non-interactive zero knowledge proofs for the authentication of IoT devices in reduced connectivity environments. Ad Hoc Networks, 95 . 101988. doi:10.1016/j.adhoc.2019.101988 ISSN 15708705.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2019.101988
Abstract
Current authentication protocols seek to establish authenticated sessions over insecure channels while maintaining a small footprint considering the energy consumption and computational overheads. Traditional authentication schemes must store a form of authentication data on the devices, putting this data at risk. Approaches based on purely public/private key infrastructure come with additional computation and maintenance costs. This work proposes a novel non-interactive zero-knowledge (NIZKP) authentication protocol that incorporates the limiting factors in IoT communication devices and sensors. Our protocol considers the inherent network instability and replaces the ZKP NP-hard problem using the Merkle tree structure for the creation of the authentication challenge. A series of simulations evaluate the performance of NIZKP against traditional ZKP approaches based on graph isomorphism. A set of performance metrics has been used, namely the channel rounds for client authentication, effects of the authentication processes, and the protocol interactions to determine areas of improvements. The simulation results indicate empirical evidence for the suitability of our NIKP approach for authentication purposes in resource-constrained IoT environments.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Internet of things, Wireless sensor networks, Proof theory -- Data processing | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Ad Hoc Networks | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
ISSN: | 15708705 | ||||||||
Official Date: | December 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 95 | ||||||||
Article Number: | 101988 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.adhoc.2019.101988 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 April 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 August 2020 |
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