Identity-Based Edge Computing Anonymous Authentication Protocol

With the development of sensor technology and wireless communication technology,edge computing has a wider range of applications.The privacy protection of edge computing is of great significance.In the edge computing system,in order to ensure the credibility of the source of terminal data,mobile edge computing(MEC)needs to verify the signature of the terminal node on the data.During the signature process,the computing power of edge devices such as wireless terminals can easily become the bottleneck of system performance.Therefore,it is very necessary to improve efficiency through computational offloading.Therefore,this paper proposes an identitybased edge computing anonymous authentication protocol.The protocol realizes mutual authentication and obtains a shared key by encrypting the mutual information.The encryption algorithm is implemented through a thresholded identity-based proxy ring signature.When a large number of terminals offload computing,MEC can set the priority of offloading tasks according to the user’s identity and permissions,thereby improving offloading efficiency.Security analysis shows that the scheme can guarantee the anonymity and unforgeability of signatures.The probability of a malicious node forging a signature is equivalent to cracking the discrete logarithm puzzle.According to the efficiency analysis,in the case of MEC offloading,the computational complexity is significantly reduced,the computing power of edge devices is liberated,and the signature efficiency is improved.

A Novel Anonymous Authentication Scheme Based on Edge Computing in Internet of Vehicles

The vehicular cloud computing is an emerging technology that changes vehicle communication and underlying trafc management applications.However,cloud computing has disadvantages such as high delay,low privacy and high communication cost,which can not meet the needs of realtime interactive information of Internet of vehicles.Ensuring security and privacy in Internet of Vehicles is also regarded as one of its most important challenges.Therefore,in order to ensure the user information security and improve the real-time of vehicle information interaction,this paper proposes an anonymous authentication scheme based on edge computing.In this scheme,the concept of edge computing is introduced into the Internet of vehicles,which makes full use of the redundant computing power and storage capacity of idle edge equipment.The edge vehicle nodes are determined by simple algorithm of dening distance and resources,and the improved RSA encryption algorithm is used to encrypt the user information.The improved RSA algorithm encrypts the user information by reencrypting the encryption parameters.Compared with the traditional RSA algorithm,it can resist more attacks,so it is used to ensure the security of user information.It can not only protect the privacy of vehicles,but also avoid anonymous abuse.Simulation results show that the proposed scheme has lower computational complexity and communication overhead than the traditional anonymous scheme.

Data Anonymous Authentication for BIoMT with Proxy Group Signature

Along with the increase of wearable medical device,the privacy leakage problem in the process of transmission between these edge medical devices.The blockchain-enabled Internet of Medical Things(BIoMT)has been developed to reform traditional centralized medical system in recent years.This paper first introduces a data anonymous authentication model to protect user privacy and medical data in BIoMT.Then,a proxy group signature(PGS)scheme has been proposed based on lattice assumption.This scheme can well satisfy the anonymous authentication demand for the proposed model,and provide anti-quantum attack security for BIoMT in the future general quantum computer age.Moreover,the security analysis shows this PGS scheme is secure against the dynamical-almost-full anonymous and traceability.The efficiency comparison shows the proposed model and PGS scheme is more efficient and practical.

Security Considerations on Three-Factor Anonymous Authentication Scheme for WSNs

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are used to monitor various environmental conditions including movement, pollution level, temperature, humidity, and etc. Secure authentication is very important for the success of WSNs. Li et al. proposed a three-factor anonymous authentication scheme in WSNs over Internet of things (IoT). They argued that their authentication scheme achieves more security and functional features, which are required for WSNs over IoT. Especially, they insisted that their user authentication scheme provides security against sensor node impersonation attack, and resists session-specific temporary information attack and various other attacks. However, this paper shows some security weaknesses in Li et al.’s scheme, especially focused on sensor node masquerading attack, known session-specific temporary information attack and deficiency of perfect forward secrecy. Especially, security considerations are very important to the modern IoT based applications. Thereby, the result of this paper could be very helpful for the IoT security researches.

An Anonymous Authentication Scheme with Selective Linkability and Threshold Traceability

In order to protect the user's privacy identity,authentication requires anonymous authentication.Anonymous authentication is divided into unconditional anonymous authentication and traceable anonymous authentication.Unconditional anonymous authentication can verify that the user belongs to an anonymous set,but the user's true identity cannot be obtained.However,in some applications,it is necessary to trace the true identity of the user.Therefore,a traceable anonymous authentication scheme is proposed.In order to prevent random tracing,the proposed scheme uses threshold joint tracing.When the identity of the authenticator needs to be traced,the threshold number of members can jointly trace the identity of the authenticator.In some special network applications such as anonymous electronic voting,in order to prevent repeated authentications and repeated elections,it is necessary to verify whether the two authentication signatures are signed by the same user without revealing the true identity of the user.Therefore,the proposed anonymous authentication scheme should have selective linkability.In order to achieve linkable authentication,the linkable tag is embedded by linkable ring signature.Compared with similar schemes through the simulation experiments,the implementation time of the proposed scheme is slightly better than other schemes.

Anonymous authentication scheme of trusted mobile terminal under mobile Internet

In order to solve the contradictions between user privacy protection and identity authentication, an anonymous authentication scheme under mobile Internet is proposed, which is based on the direct anonymous attestation of trusted computing and uses the encrypting transfer and signature validation for its implementation. Aiming at two access mode of trusted mobile terminal under mobile Internet, self access and cross-domain access, the authentication process of each mode is described in details. The analysis shows that the scheme implements anonymous authentication on mobile Internet and is correct, controllable and unforgeable.

Efficient pairing-based batch anonymous authentication scheme for VANET

To solve the efficiency problem of batch anonymous authentication for vehicular Ad-hoc networks （VANET） , an improved scheme is proposed by using bilinear pairing on elliptic curves. The signature is jointly generated by roadside unit （RSU） node and vehicle, thus reducing the burden of VANET certification center and improving the authentication efficiency, and making it more difficult for attacker to extract the key. Furthermore, under random oracle model （ROM） security proof is provided. Analyses show that the proposed scheme can defend against many kinds of security problems, such as anonymity, man-in-the-middle （ MITM ） attack, collusion attack, unforgeability, forward security and backward security etc. , while the computational overheads are significantly reduced and the authentication efficiency is effectively improved. Therefore, the scheme has great theoretical significance and application value under computational capability constrained Internet of things （IoT） environments.

A Traceable and Anonymous Authentication Scheme Based on ECC

Based on elliptic curve public key cryptosystem and with the help of ring signature,a traceable and anonymous authentication scheme is proposed.The security of the proposed scheme is based on the difficulty of solving elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem(ECDLP)and the computational Diffie-Hellman assumption(CDHA).In order to prevent random tracing,the threshold technology is introduced into anonymous tracing.In addition,in the signature generation process,using the private key and the additional random number,the signature satisfies unforgeability.Compared with the existing schemes,the communication overhead of the proposed scheme is relatively small.In the case of similar calculational overhead,the proposed scheme not only has anonymous authentication,signature unforgeability,but also has threshold traceability.

Probabilistic Adaptive Anonymous Authentication in Vehicular Networks

Vehicular networks have attracted extensive attention in recent years for their promises in improving safety and enabling other value-added services. Most previous work focuses on designing the media access and physical layer protocols. Privacy issues in vehicular systems have not been well addressed. We argue that privacy is a user-specific concept, and a good privacy protection mechanism should allow users to select the levels of privacy they wish to have. To address this requirement, we propose an adaptive anonymous authentication mechanism that can trade off the anonymity level with computational and communication overheads （resource usage）. This mechanism, to our knowledge, is the first effort on adaptive anonymous authentication. The resources used by our protocol are few. A high traffic volume of 2000 vehicles per hour consumes about 60kbps bandwidth, which is less than one percent of the bandwidth of DSRC （Dedicated Short Range Communications）. By using adaptive anonymity, the protocol response time can further be improved 2-4 times with less than 20% bandwidth overheads.

An Anonymous Authentication Scheme Withstanding the Conspiracy Attack

A novel anonymous authentication scheme is proposed based on the ring signature. In the scheme, the private key and the the freely chosen anonymity set are used to achieve anonymous authentication. In terms of the threshold sharing, a group of t members jointly implement threshold tracking. In order to improve the security of tracking, message recovery equation is used to verify and recover data leaked by the user. Compared with Liu et al’s scheme, the proposed scheme can resist conspiracy tracking and has less computational cost. On the premise of the discrete-logarithm-based assumption put forth by Lysyanskaya, Rivest, Sahai, and Wolf（LRSW） and Diffie-Hellman（DDH） assumption, the scheme is proved to meet the demands of anonymous authentication. The scheme has broad application prospects in many fields such as ad hoc network, electronic voting, and so on.

Novel Private Data Access Control Scheme Suitable for Mobile Edge Computing

Efficient response speed and information processing speed are among the characteristics of mobile edge computing(MEC).However,MEC easily causes information leakage and loss problems because it requires frequent data exchange.This work proposes an anonymous privacy data protection and access control scheme based on elliptic curve cryptography(ECC)and bilinear pairing to protect the communication security of the MEC.In the proposed scheme,the information sender encrypts private information through the ECC algorithm,and the information receiver uses its own key information and bilinear pairing to extract and verify the identity of the information sender.During each round of communication,the proposed scheme uses timestamps and random numbers to ensure the freshness of each round of conversation.Experimental results show that the proposed scheme has good security performance and can provide data privacy protection,integrity verification,and traceability for the communication process of MEC.The proposed scheme has a lower cost than other related schemes.The communication and computational cost of the proposed scheme are reduced by 31.08% and 22.31% on average compared with those of the other related schemes.

Security Analysis for a VANET Privacy Protection Scheme

Vehicular ad hoc network(VANET)is a self-organizing wireless sensor network model,which is extensively used in the existing traffic.Due to the openness of wireless channel and the sensitivity of traffic information,data transmission process in VANET is vulnerable to leakage and attack.Authentication of vehicle identitywhile protecting vehicle privacy information is an advantageous way to improve the security of VANET.We propose a scheme based on fair blind signature and secret sharing algorithm.In this paper,we prove that the scheme is feasible through security analysis.

Accountable attribute-based authentication with fine-grained access control and its application to crowdsourcing

We introduce a new notion called accountable attribute-based authentication with fine-grained access control (AccABA), which achieves (i) fine-grained access control that prevents ineligible users from authenticating;(ii) anonymity such that no one can recognize the identity of a user;(iii) public accountability, i.e., as long as a user authenticates two different messages, the corresponding authentications will be easily identified and linked, and anyone can reveal the user’s identity without any help from a trusted third party. Then, we formalize the security requirements in terms of unforgeability, anonymity, linkability and traceability, and give a generic construction to fulfill these requirements. Based on AccABA, we further present the first attribute-based, fair, anonymous and publicly traceable crowdsourcing scheme on blockchain, which is designed to filter qualified workers to participate in tasks, and ensures the fairness of the competition between workers, and finally balances the tension between anonymity and accountability.