A new approach on IoT security: n-out-of-n

Tuğberk KOCATEKİN; Cafer ÇALIŞKAN

Paper 2023/468

A new approach on IoT security: n-out-of-n

Tuğberk KOCATEKİN

, Istanbul Arel University

Cafer ÇALIŞKAN

, Antalya Bilim University

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) has become an established part of our daily lives by interconnecting billions of devices in diverse areas such as health care, smart home technologies, agriculture, etc. However, IoT devices are limited in memory, energy and computational capabilities. This creates a great potential for security issues, since being constrained prevents producers from implementing mostly complex cryptographic algorithms in IoT devices. In this study, we propose a novel method to provide a low-cost and secure communication for constrained IoT devices. The proposed method is based on an -out-of- secret sharing scheme and mimicks the idea of visual cryptography in a digital setup. Whenever an IoT device communicates with an outer party, it establishes the communication by itself or through a mediary such as a central hub or gateway; in which the latter mostly leads to a single point of failure. Our proposed method aims for a distributed environment in which IoT devices within a secure network collaborate with each other in order to send a message to a master device over an insecure channel.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Cryptographic protocols
Publication info: Preprint.
Keywords: Internet of Things Secret Sharing Visual Cryptography
Contact author(s): tugberk @ gmail com
cafercaliskan @ gmail com
History: 2023-04-01: approved; 2023-03-31: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2023/468
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/468,
      author = {Tuğberk KOCATEKİN and Cafer ÇALIŞKAN},
      title = {A new approach on {IoT} security: n-out-of-n},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/468},
      year = {2023},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/468}
}