Lightweight Security Protocols for the Internet of Things
Author(s)
Wu, Xin-Wen
Yang, En-Hui
Wang, Junhu
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2017
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In this paper, a suite of lightweight security protocols for the Internet of Things (IoT) is presented. It comprises protocols for lightweight encryption, authentication as well as key management. The key management protocol is the application of our early work on information theoretically secure key management to IoT; it is computationally efficient and information-theoretically secure, and enables that every data item (file) is encrypted with its own random key. The security and computational efficiency of the proposed protocols are compared with those of IPsec, which is the most commonly used suite of network-layer security ...
View more >In this paper, a suite of lightweight security protocols for the Internet of Things (IoT) is presented. It comprises protocols for lightweight encryption, authentication as well as key management. The key management protocol is the application of our early work on information theoretically secure key management to IoT; it is computationally efficient and information-theoretically secure, and enables that every data item (file) is encrypted with its own random key. The security and computational efficiency of the proposed protocols are compared with those of IPsec, which is the most commonly used suite of network-layer security protocols in Internet based applications but not desirable, due to its computationally-intensive procedures, to IoT applications and cyber-physical systems (CPS) with resource and computation-capability constraints. The proposed security protocols can be employed in IoT and CPS applications, replacing the IPsec core algorithms or the whole IPsec suite, to achieve a higher level of security with a very low resource consumption that helps to maintain the system sustainability.
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View more >In this paper, a suite of lightweight security protocols for the Internet of Things (IoT) is presented. It comprises protocols for lightweight encryption, authentication as well as key management. The key management protocol is the application of our early work on information theoretically secure key management to IoT; it is computationally efficient and information-theoretically secure, and enables that every data item (file) is encrypted with its own random key. The security and computational efficiency of the proposed protocols are compared with those of IPsec, which is the most commonly used suite of network-layer security protocols in Internet based applications but not desirable, due to its computationally-intensive procedures, to IoT applications and cyber-physical systems (CPS) with resource and computation-capability constraints. The proposed security protocols can be employed in IoT and CPS applications, replacing the IPsec core algorithms or the whole IPsec suite, to achieve a higher level of security with a very low resource consumption that helps to maintain the system sustainability.
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Conference Title
2017 IEEE 28TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PERSONAL, INDOOR, AND MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS (PIMRC)
Volume
2017-October
Subject
Cybersecurity and privacy not elsewhere classified
Information systems organisation and management