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Blockchain-Based Group Key Management Scheme in IoT

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Group key management is an important method to protect privacy information in the IoT. However, the existing group key management scheme follows the hierarchical structure and highly depends on central authentication, which cannot be adapted to the distributed Internet of Things environment. Blockchain, a distributed ledger technology with the characteristics of being transparent, non-tamperable, and traceable, is a promising candidate for strengthening the security of group key management in IoT. This paper proposes a blockchain-based group key management scheme in IoT. This scheme uses blockchain technology to ensure that resources are shared securely in the decentralized domain administrator network, realize the dynamic security management of user information and keys, and improve the efficiency of the group key update for the dynamic group members. In this way, the user’s activity and key update can be recorded in blocks, which is convenient for retrieval and audit work of other domain administrators.

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  1. School of Information Science and Technology, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu, China

    Haiying Ma & Guorong Sun

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  2. Electrical and Electronics Department, Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Vitoantonio Bevilacqua

  3. School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

    Abir Hussain

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Ma, H., Sun, G. (2020). Blockchain-Based Group Key Management Scheme in IoT. In: Huang, DS., Bevilacqua, V., Hussain, A. (eds) Intelligent Computing Theories and Application. ICIC 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12463. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60799-9_39

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