Heterogeneous Fault-Tolerant Aggregate Signcryption with Equality Test for Vehicular Sensor Networks

The vehicular sensor network (VSN) is an important part of intelligent transportation, which is used for real-timedetection and operation control of vehicles and real-time transmission of data and information. In the environmentofVSN, massive private data generated by vehicles are transmitted in open channels and used by other vehicle users,so it is crucial to maintain high transmission efficiency and high confidentiality of data. To deal with this problem, inthis paper, we propose a heterogeneous fault-tolerant aggregate signcryption scheme with an equality test (HFTASET).The scheme combines fault-tolerant and aggregate signcryption,whichnot onlymakes up for the deficiency oflow security of aggregate signature, but alsomakes up for the deficiency that aggregate signcryption cannot tolerateinvalid signature. The scheme supports one verification pass when all signcryptions are valid, and it supportsunbounded aggregation when the total number of signcryptions grows dynamically. In addition, this schemesupports heterogeneous equality test, and realizes the access control of private data in different cryptographicenvironments, so as to achieve flexibility in the application of our scheme and realize the function of quick searchof plaintext or ciphertext. Then, the security of HFTAS-ET is demonstrated by strict theoretical analysis. Finally, weconduct strict and standardized experimental operation and performance evaluation, which shows that the schemehas better performance.

Identity-based aggregate signcryption in the standard model from multilinear maps

Signcryption is a public key cryptographic method that achieves unforgeability and confidentiality simultaneously with significantly smaller overhead than that required by ＂digital signature followed by public key encryption＂. It does this by signing and encr.ypting a message in a single step. An aggregate signcryption scheme allows individual signcryption ciphertexts intended for the same recipi- ent to be aggregated into a single （shorter） combined ciphertext without losing any of the security guarantees. We present an aggregate signcryption scheme in the identity-based setting using multilinear maps, and provide a proof of security in the standard model. To the best of our knowledge, our new scheme is the first aggregate signcryption scheme that is secure in the standard model.

A power resource dispatching framework with a privacy protection function in the Power Internet of Things

Smart meters in the Power Internet of Things generate a large amount of power data.However,data privacy in the process of calculation,storage,and transmission is an urgent problem to be solved.Therefore,in this paper we propose a power resource dispatching framework(PRDF)with a privacy protection function,which uses a certificateless aggregate signcryption scheme based on cloud-fog cooperation.Using pseudonyms and aggregating users’power data,PRDF not only protects users’privacy,but also reduces the computing cost and communication overhead under traditional cloud computing.In addition,if the control center finds that a user has submitted abnormal data,it can send a request to the user management center to track the real identity of the user.Our scheme satisfies security requirements based on the random oracle model,including confidentiality and unforgeability.Furthermore,we compare our scheme with other certificateless aggregate signcryption schemes by simulations.Simulation results show that compared with traditional methods,our method performs better in terms of the computation cost.