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A Lightweight Security Protocol for IoT Using Merkle Hash Tree and Chaotic Cryptography

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Advanced Computing and Systems for Security

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 996))

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Security is one of the primary concerns in an Internet of things (IoT) environment as they are deployed in critical applications that directly affect human lives. For this purpose, a security protocol that involves both authentication of deployed IoT devices and encryption of generated data is proposed in this paper. Encryption algorithms based on chaos are known to satisfy the basic requirements of the cryptosystem such as high sensitivity, high computational speed and high security. The chaos-based encryption algorithm is built upon a modified quadratic map named as quadratic sinusoidal map which exhibits better array of chaotic regime when compared to the traditional logistic map. The authentication protocol, on the other hand, is based on Merkle hash tree that has been improved to adapt to an IoT environment. The control parameters and the initial condition for the map are derived from the Merkle hash tree. The proposed algorithm involves cryptographic operations that incur very low computational cost and requires relatively little storage and at the same time are highly resilient to security attacks.

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This work is partly supported by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India, under the Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme for Electronics & IT (PhD-PLA/4(71)/2015-16) and DST-Water Technology Initiative (WTI) (DST/TM/WTI/2k16/45(C)) dated 28 September 2016, Government of India.

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  1. Department of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, 711103, West Bengal, India

    Nashreen Nesa & Indrajit Banerjee

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    Khalid Saeed

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Nesa, N., Banerjee, I. (2020). A Lightweight Security Protocol for IoT Using Merkle Hash Tree and Chaotic Cryptography. In: Chaki, R., Cortesi, A., Saeed, K., Chaki, N. (eds) Advanced Computing and Systems for Security. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 996. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8969-6_1

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