An Efficient Data Protection Scheme Based on Hierarchical ID-Based Encryption for Message Queueing Telemetry Transport

Chun-I Fan; Cheng-Han Shie; Yi-Fan Tseng; Hui-Chun Huang

Paper 2021/1057

An Efficient Data Protection Scheme Based on Hierarchical ID-Based Encryption for Message Queueing Telemetry Transport

Chun-I Fan

, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, Information Security Research Center, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, Intelligent Electronic Commerce Research Center, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Cheng-Han Shie, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Yi-Fan Tseng

, Department of Computer Science, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Hui-Chun Huang, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Abstract

As Internet of Things (IoT) thriving over the whole world, more and more IoT devices and IoT-based protocols have been designed and proposed in order to meet people's needs. Among those protocols, message queueing telemetry transport (MQTT) is one of the most emerging and promising protocol, which provides many-to-many message transmission based on the ``publish/subscribe'' mechanism. It has been widely used in industries such as the energy industry, chemical engineering, self-driving, etc. While transporting important messages, MQTT specification recommends the use of TLS protocol. However, computation cost of TLS is too heavy. Since topics in a broker are stored with a hierarchical structure, In this manuscript, we propose a novel data protection protocol for MQTT from hierarchical ID-based encryption. Our protocol adopts the intrinsic hierarchical structures of MQTT, and achieves constant-size keys, i.e. independent of the depth in hierarchical structures.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Cryptographic protocols
Publication info: Published elsewhere. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
Keywords: Hierarchical ID-Based Encryption Message Queueing Telemetry Transport MQTT Data Protection.
Contact author(s): cifan @ mail cse nsysu edu tw
hanhan3927 @ g-mail nsysu edu tw
yftseng @ cs nccu edu tw
ninaninarunning @ gmail com
History: 2022-10-29: revised; 2021-08-16: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2021/1057
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/1057,
      author = {Chun-I Fan and Cheng-Han Shie and Yi-Fan Tseng and Hui-Chun Huang},
      title = {An Efficient Data Protection Scheme Based on Hierarchical {ID}-Based Encryption for Message Queueing Telemetry Transport},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2021/1057},
      year = {2021},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1057}
}