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An anonymous authentication and secure data transmission scheme for the Internet of Things based on blockchain

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With the widespread use of network infrastructures such as 5G and low-power wide-area networks, a large number of the Internet of Things (IoT) device nodes are connected to the network, generating massive amounts of data. Therefore, it is a great challenge to achieve anonymous authentication of IoT nodes and secure data transmission. At present, blockchain technology is widely used in authentication and s data storage due to its decentralization and immutability. Recently, Fan et al. proposed a secure and efficient blockchain-based IoT authentication and data sharing scheme. We studied it as one of the state-of-the-art protocols and found that this scheme does not consider the resistance to ephemeral secret compromise attacks and the anonymity of IoT nodes. To overcome these security flaws, this paper proposes an enhanced authentication and data transmission scheme, which is verified by formal security proofs and informal security analysis. Furthermore, Scyther is applied to prove the security of the proposed scheme. Moreover, it is demonstrated that the proposed scheme achieves better performance in terms of communication and computational cost compared to other related schemes.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61872449, U1804263, 62172435, 62172141, 61772173), the Zhongyuan Science and Technology Innovation Leading Talent Project, China (No. 214200510019), the Natural Science Foundation of Henan (No. 222300420004), the Major Public Welfare Special Projects of Henan Province (No. 201300210100) and the Key Research and Development Project of Henan Province (No. 221111321200).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Engineering and Advanced Computing, Zhengzhou Institute of Information Science and Technology, Zhengzhou, 450001, China

    Xingxing Chen, Qingfeng Cheng & Xiangyang Luo

  2. Henan Key Laboratory of Grain Photoelectric Detection and Control, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, 450001, China

    Weidong Yang

  3. Henan Province Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Situation Awareness, Zhengzhou Institute of Information Science and Technology, Zhengzhou, 450001, China

    Xiangyang Luo

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Xingxing Chen received her MS degree in School of Information Science and Engineering from Henan University of Technology, China in 2021. She is currently pursuing the PhD degree at the State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Engineering and Advanced Computing, China. Her research interests are information security and blockchain.

Qingfeng Cheng received the MS degree from National University of Defense Technology, China in 2004 and PhD degree from Information Engineering University, China in 2011. He is now a professor in the State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Engineering and Advanced Computing, China. His research interests include cryptography and information security.

Weidong Yang received his BS in Industrial Automation, MS and PhD degree in Computer Science from Xidian University, China in 1999, 2005, and 2008, respectively. He is now a professor in Henan University of Technology, deputy chair of Henan Key Laboratory of Grain Photoelectric Detection and Control, Henan University of Technology, China. He is also a senior member of China Computer Federation (CCF). His research focuses on wireless networks security, privacy protection, vehicular ad-hoc networks, and so on.

Xiangyang Luo received his BS, MS and PhD degrees from the State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Engineering and Advanced Computing, China in 2001, 2004, and 2010, respectively. He is the author or co-author of more than 150 refereed international journal and conference papers. He is currently a professor of the State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Engineering and Advanced Computing, also with Key Laboratory of Cyberspace Situation Awareness of Henan Province. His research interests are multimedia security and network security.

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Chen, X., Cheng, Q., Yang, W. et al. An anonymous authentication and secure data transmission scheme for the Internet of Things based on blockchain. Front. Comput. Sci. 18, 183807 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-023-2595-x

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