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A Lightweight Attribute-Based Security Scheme for Fog-Enabled Cyber Physical Systems

Junejo

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<jats:p>In this paper, a lightweight attribute-based security scheme based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is proposed for fog-enabled cyber physical systems (Fog-CPS). A novel aspect of the proposed scheme is that the communication between Fog-CPS entities is secure even when the certification authority (CA) is compromised. This is achieved by dividing the attributes into two sets, namely, secret and shared, and subsequently generating two key pairs, referred to as the partial and final key pairs, for each entity of the Fog-CPS system. Unlike existing attribute-based encryption (ABE) and identity-based encryption schemes, in the proposed scheme, each entity calculates the final public key of the communicating CPS devices without the need of generating and transmitting digital certificates. Moreover, the proposed security scheme considers an efficient and secure key pair update approach in which the calculation overhead is limited to one group element. To show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme, we have calculated and compared the memory and processing complexity with other bilinear and elliptic curve schemes. We have also implemented our scheme in a Raspberry Pi (3B+ model) for CPS simulations. The proposed scheme guarantees the confidentiality, integrity, privacy, and authenticity in Fog-CPS systems.</jats:p>

Acceptance Date Jul 24, 2020
Publication Date Sep 21, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Print ISSN 1530-8669
Publisher Wiley
Pages 1 - 18
DOI https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/2145829
Publisher URL https://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcmc/2020/2145829/

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