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BLAC: A Blockchain-Based Lightweight Access Control Scheme in Vehicular Social Networks

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Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2023)

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Vehicular Social Networks (VSNs) rely on data shared by users to provide convenient services. Data is outsourced to the cloud server and the distributed roadside unit in VSNs. However, roadside unit has limited resources, so that data sharing process is inefficient and is vulnerable to security threats, such as illegal access, tampering attack and collusion attack. In this article, to overcome the shortcomings of security, we define a chain tolerance semi-trusted model to describe the credibility of distributed group based on the anti tampering feature of blockchain. We further propose a Blockchain-based Lightweight Access Control scheme in VSNs that resist tampering and collusion attacks, called BLAC. To overcome the shortcomings of efficiency, we design a ciphertext piece storage algorithm and a recovery one to achieve lightweight storage cost. In the decryption operation, we separate a pre-decryption algorithm based on outsourcing to achieve lightweight decryption computation cost on the user side. Finally, we present the formal security analyses and the simulation experiments for BLAC, and compare the results of experiments with existing relevant schemes. The security analyses show that our scheme is secure, and the results of experiments show that our scheme is lightweight and practical.

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The authors of this article would like to thank the editor. This work is supposed by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NOs. U1905211, 61902289).

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  1. Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China

    Yuting Zuo, Li Xu, Yuexin Zhang & Zhaozhe Kang

  2. Fujian provincial Key Laboratory of Network Security and Cryptology, Fuzhou, China

    Yuting Zuo, Li Xu, Yuexin Zhang & Zhaozhe Kang

  3. Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Chenbin Zhao

  4. Key Laboratory of Aerospace Information Security and Trusted Computing, Ministry of Education, Wuhan, China

    Chenbin Zhao

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  2. Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

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  3. Nankai University, Tianjin, China

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  4. Xidian University, Xi’an, China

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Zuo, Y., Xu, L., Zhang, Y., Kang, Z., Zhao, C. (2023). BLAC: A Blockchain-Based Lightweight Access Control Scheme in Vehicular Social Networks. In: Wang, D., Yung, M., Liu, Z., Chen, X. (eds) Information and Communications Security. ICICS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14252. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7356-9_18

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