Security and Privacy in Solar Insecticidal Lamps Internet of Things:Requirements and Challenges

Solar insecticidal lamps(SIL) can effectively control pests and reduce the use of pesticides. Combining SIL and Internet of Things(IoT) has formed a new type of agricultural IoT,known as SIL-IoT, which can improve the effectiveness of migratory phototropic pest control. However, since the SIL is connected to the Internet, it is vulnerable to various security issues.These issues can lead to serious consequences, such as tampering with the parameters of SIL, illegally starting and stopping SIL,etc. In this paper, we describe the overall security requirements of SIL-IoT and present an extensive survey of security and privacy solutions for SIL-IoT. We investigate the background and logical architecture of SIL-IoT, discuss SIL-IoT security scenarios, and analyze potential attacks. Starting from the security requirements of SIL-IoT we divide them into six categories, namely privacy, authentication, confidentiality, access control, availability,and integrity. Next, we describe the SIL-IoT privacy and security solutions, as well as the blockchain-based solutions. Based on the current survey, we finally discuss the challenges and future research directions of SIL-IoT.

New Public-Key Cryptosystem Based on the Morphism of Polynomials Problem

During the last two decades, there has been intensive and fast development in Multivariate Public Key Cryptography （MPKC）, which is considered to be an important candidate for post-quantum cryptography. However, it is universally regarded as a difficult task, as in the Knapsack cryptosystems, to design a secure MPKC scheme （especially an encryption scheme） employing the existing trapdoor construction. In this paper, we propose a new key-exchange scheme and an MPKC scheme based on the Morphism of Polynomials （MP） problem. The security of the proposed schemes is provably reducible to the conjectured intractability of a new difficult problem, namely the Decisional Multivariate Diffie-Hellman （DMDH） problem derived from the MP problem. The proposed key agreement is one of several non-number-theory-based protocols, and is a candidate for use in the post-quantum era. More importantly, by slightly modifying the protocol, we offer an original approach to designing a secure MPKC scheme. Furthermore, the proposed encryption scheme achieves a good tradeoff between security and efficiency, and seems competitive with traditional MPKC schemes.

Optimization of Quantum Computing Models Inspired by D-Wave Quantum Annealing

With the slow progress of universal quantum computers,studies on the feasibility of optimization by a dedicated and quantum-annealing-based annealer are important.The quantum principle is expected to utilize the quantum tunneling effects to find the optimal solutions for the exponential-level problems while classical annealing may be affected by the initializations.This study constructs a new Quantum-Inspired Annealing(QIA)framework to explore the potentials of quantum annealing for solving Ising model with comparisons to the classical one.Through various configurations of the 1 D Ising model,the new framework can achieve ground state,corresponding to the optimum of classical problems,with higher probability up to 28%versus classical counterpart(22%in case).This condition not only reveals the potential of quantum annealing for solving the Ising-like Hamiltonian,but also contributes to an improved understanding and use of the quantum annealer for various applications in the future.