Device Authentication and Data Encryption for IoT Network by Using Improved Lightweight SAFER Encryption With S-Boxes

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Hamza Sajjad Ahmad ◽  
Muhammad Junaid Arshad ◽  
Muhammad Sohail Akram
Keyword(s):  
Low Power ◽  
Secure Communication ◽  
Data Encryption ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Encryption Algorithm ◽  
Authentication Mechanism ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Encryption Method ◽  
Secure Authentication

To send data over the network, devices need to authenticate themselves within the network. After authentication, the device will be able to send the data in-network. After authentication, secure communication of devices is an important task that is done with an encryption method. IoT network devices have a very small circuit with low resources and low computation power. By considering low power, less memory, low computation, and all the aspect of IoT devices, an encryption technique is needed that is suitable for this type of device. As IoT networks are heterogeneous, each device has different hardware properties, and all the devices are not on one scale. To make IoT networks secure, this paper starts with the secure authentication mechanism to verify the device that wants to be a part of the network. After that, an encryption algorithm is presented that will make the communication secure. This encryption algorithm is designed by considering all the important aspects of IoT devices (low computation, low memory, and cost).

scholarly journals Lightweight Coap Based Authentication Scheme by Applying Two-Way Encryption for Secure Transmission

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 404``-412
Keyword(s):  
User Authentication ◽  
Mutual Authentication ◽  
Data Communication ◽  
Data Encryption ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Authentication Mechanism ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Lightweight Authentication ◽  
Secure Authentication ◽  
Secure Transmission

With the widespread popularity of the Internet of Things (IoT), different sectors-based applications are increasingly developed. One of the most popular application layer protocols is the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), and the necessity of ensuring data security in this layer is crucial. Moreover, attackers target the vulnerabilities of IoT to gain access to the system, which leads to a security threat and violate privacy. Typically, user authentication and data encryption are applied for securing data communication over a public channel between two or more participants. However, most of the existing solutions use cryptography for achieving security, with the exception of high computation cost. Hence, these solutions fail to satisfy the resource-constrained characteristics of IoT devices. Therefore, a lightweight security mechanism is required for achieving both secure transmission and better performance. This paper proposes a Lightweight Authentication with Two-way Encryption for Secure Transmission in CoAP Protocol (LATEST) that provides a secure transmission between the server and IoT devices. This mutual authentication mechanism uses ROT 18 Cipher with XoR operation and 128-bit AES based encryption for securing the data transmission. The ROT18 Cipher is a monoalphabetic substitution cipher, which is a combination of ROT13 and ROT5. The proposed scheme employs symmetric encryption in both client and server for ensuring secure authentication and mutually confirm each other identity. In addition, the proposed LATEST scheme ensures confidentiality and integrity by being resistant to replay attacks, impersonation attacks, and modification attacks. The experimental evaluation demonstrates that the proposed LATEST scheme is lightweight and provides better security compared to the existing scheme.

scholarly journals Chaotic Lightweight Cryptosystem for Image Encryption

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Jannatul Ferdush ◽  
Mahbuba Begum ◽  
Mohammad Shorif Uddin
Keyword(s):  
Image Encryption ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Data Encryption ◽  
Multimedia Data ◽  
Encryption Algorithm ◽  
Personal Network ◽  
Equal Distribution ◽  
Memory Space ◽  
Prime Concern ◽  
Encryption Method

Data transmission over the Internet and the personal network has been risen day by day due to the advancement of multimedia technology. Hence, it is today’s prime concern to protect the data from unauthorized access and encrypt the multimedia element as they are stored on the web servers and transmitted over the networks. Therefore, multimedia data encryption is essential. But, the multimedia encryption algorithm is complex to implement as it requires more time and memory space. For this reason, the lightweight image encryption algorithm gains popularity that requires less memory and less time along with low power or energy and provides supreme security for limited devices. In this study, we have studied the chaotic-based lightweight image encryption method. At first, we have presented a standard framework and algorithm based on two chaotic maps such as Arnold and logistic for lightweight image encryption and performed some experiments. We have analyzed different groups of images such as miscellaneous, medical, underwater, and texture. Experimentations have provided the largest entropy 7.9920 for medical image (chest X-ray), large key space 2m×m×8, and average encryption and decryption times are 3.9771 s and 3.1447 s, respectively. Besides, we have found an equal distribution of pixels and less correlation coefficients among adjacent pixels of the encrypted image. These criteria indicate an efficient image encryption method. Also, our method is efficient and less complex than the existing state-of-the-art methods.

Enhancing Security in Internet of Things Environment by Developing an Authentication Mechanism using COAP Protocol

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samah Mohammed S ALhusayni ◽  
Wael Ali Alosaimi
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Information Assurance ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Authentication Mechanism ◽  
Internet Of Things Environment ◽  
Symmetric Key ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Secure Authentication ◽  
Biometric Features

Internet of Things (IoT) has a huge attention recently due to its new emergence, benefits, and contribution to improving the quality of human lives. Securing IoT poses an open area of research, as it is the base of allowing people to use the technology and embrace this development in their daily activities. Authentication is one of the influencing security element of Information Assurance (IA), which includes confidentiality, integrity, and availability, non repudiation, and authentication. Therefore, there is a need to enhance security in the current authentication mechanisms. In this report, some of the authentication mechanisms proposed in recent years have been presented and reviewed. Specifically, the study focuses on enhancement of security in CoAP protocol due to its relevance to the characteristics of IoT devices and its need to enhance its security by using the symmetric key with biometric features in the authentication. This study will help in providing secure authentication technology for IoT data, device, and users.

scholarly journals IPTV Service Framework Based on Secure Authentication and Lightweight Content Encryption for Screen-Migration in Cloud Computing

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aymen Abdullah Alsaffar ◽  
Young-Rok Shin ◽  
Eui-Nam Huh
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Wireless Network ◽  
Mobile Terminal ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Protection Mechanism ◽  
Iptv Service ◽  
Authentication Mechanism ◽  
Smart Mobile ◽  
Encryption Method ◽  
Secure Authentication

These days, the advancing of smart devices (e.g. smart phones, tablets, PC, etc.) capabilities and the increase of internet bandwidth enables IPTV service provider to extend their services to smart mobile devices. User can just receive their IPTV service using any smart devices by accessing the internet via wireless network from anywhere anytime in the world which is convenience for users. However, wireless network communication has well a known critical security threats and vulnerabilities to user smart devices and IPTV service such as user identity theft, reply attack, MIM attack, and so forth. A secure authentication for user devices and multimedia protection mechanism is necessary to protect both user devices and IPTV services. As result, we proposed framework of IPTV service based on secure authentication mechanism and lightweight content encryption method for screen-migration in Cloud computing. We used cryptographic nonce combined with user ID and password to authenticate user device in any mobile terminal they passes by. In addition we used Lightweight content encryption to protect and reduce the content decode overload at mobile terminals. Our proposed authentication mechanism reduces the computational processing by 30% comparing to other authentication mechanism and our lightweight content encryption reduces encryption delay to 0.259 second.

scholarly journals Rural Healthcare IoT Architecture Based on Low-Energy LoRa

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
pp. 7660
Author(s):  
Ace Dimitrievski ◽  
Sonja Filiposka ◽  
Francisco José Melero ◽  
Eftim Zdravevski ◽  
Petre Lameski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Power ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Battery Life ◽  
Ultra Low Power ◽  
Term Operation ◽  
Doctor Patient Communication ◽  
Connected Health ◽  
Iot Devices

Connected health is expected to introduce an improvement in providing healthcare and doctor-patient communication while at the same time reducing cost. Connected health would introduce an even more significant gap between healthcare quality for urban areas with physical proximity and better communication to providers and the portion of rural areas with numerous connectivity issues. We identify these challenges using user scenarios and propose LoRa based architecture for addressing these challenges. We focus on the energy management of battery-powered, affordable IoT devices for long-term operation, providing important information about the care receivers’ well-being. Using an external ultra-low-power timer, we extended the battery life in the order of tens of times, compared to relying on low power modes of the microcontroller.

scholarly journals IMSC-EIoTD: Identity Management and Secure Communication for Edge IoT Devices

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (22) ◽  
pp. 6546
Author(s):  
Kazi Masum Sadique ◽  
Rahim Rahmani ◽  
Paul Johannesson
Keyword(s):  
Secure Communication ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Security Protocols ◽  
Spin Model ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Authentication And Authorization ◽  
Quality Of Living ◽  
Iot Devices

The Internet of things (IoT) will accommodate several billions of devices to the Internet to enhance human society as well as to improve the quality of living. A huge number of sensors, actuators, gateways, servers, and related end-user applications will be connected to the Internet. All these entities require identities to communicate with each other. The communicating devices may have mobility and currently, the only main identity solution is IP based identity management which is not suitable for the authentication and authorization of the heterogeneous IoT devices. Sometimes devices and applications need to communicate in real-time to make decisions within very short times. Most of the recently proposed solutions for identity management are cloud-based. Those cloud-based identity management solutions are not feasible for heterogeneous IoT devices. In this paper, we have proposed an edge-fog based decentralized identity management and authentication solution for IoT devices (IoTD) and edge IoT gateways (EIoTG). We have also presented a secure communication protocol for communication between edge IoT devices and edge IoT gateways. The proposed security protocols are verified using Scyther formal verification tool, which is a popular tool for automated verification of security protocols. The proposed model is specified using the PROMELA language. SPIN model checker is used to confirm the specification of the proposed model. The results show different message flows without any error.

scholarly journals Reliability Improvement of LoRa with ARQ and Relay Node

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocksan Choi ◽  
SeungGwan Lee ◽  
Sungwon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Wide Area ◽  
Forward Rate ◽  
Low Power Consumption ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Automatic Repeat Request ◽  
Actual Performance ◽  
Iot Devices

In our modern world, many Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are being researched and developed. IoT devices are currently being used in many fields. IoT devices use Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, however, communication distance is short and battery consumption is high. In areas such as smart cities and smart farms, IoT technology is needed to support a wide coverage with low power consumption. Low Power Wide Area (LPWA), which is a transmission used in IoT supporting a wide area with low power consumption, has evolved. LPWA includes Long Range (LoRa), Narrowband (NB-IoT), and Sigfox. LoRa offers many benefits as it communicates the longest distances, is cheap and consumes less battery. LoRa is used in many countries and covers a range of hundreds of square kilometers (km2) with a single gateway. However, if there are many obstacles to smart cities and smart farms, it causes communication problems. This paper proposes two (2) solutions to this problem: the relay method which is a multi-hop method and the Automatic Repeat Request (ARQ) system that detects packet loss in real-time and requests retransmission for LoRa. In this study, the actual performance of LoRa in the problematic environment was measured and the proposed method was applied. It was confirmed that the transmission rate of LoRa dropped when there were many obstacles such as trees. To use LoRa in a smart farm with a lot of space, multi-hop was observed to be better. An ARQ system is needed to compensate for the unexpected drop in the forward rate due to the increase in IoT devices. This research focused on reliability, however, additional network methods and automatic repeat request (ARQ) systems considering battery time should be researched in symmetry. This study covers the interdisciplinary field of computer science and wireless low power communication engineering. We have analyzed the LoRa/LoRaWAN technology in an experimental approach, which has been somewhat less studied than cellular network or WiFi technology. In addition, we presented and improved the performance evaluation results in consideration of various local and climatic environments.

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