A blockchain-based Shamir's threshold cryptography for data protection in industrial internet of things of smart city

Liang Tan, Keping Yu, Caixia Yang, Ali Kashif Bashir

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Abstract

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a typical infrastructure of a smart city. Due to the limited storage and computing capabilities of industrial IoT devices, the data sensed and collected by these devices is usually stored in the cloud, and encryption is usually used to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of sensitive data in the cloud. However, since the keys used for data encryption and decryption are usually difficult to manage, it is easy to cause security and privacy issues. To this end, this article proposes a blockchain-based IIoT data protection scheme. In this scheme, in order to prevent the loss of the private key and the disclosure of privacy, we use the Shamir secret sharing algorithm to split and encrypt the private key, and publish it on the blockchain. Experimental results show that this scheme can not only effectively prevent data from being stolen, but also effectively protect the encryption key.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication6G-ABS 2021 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technologies for Smart Cities with 6G, Part of ACM MobiCom 2021
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages13-18
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450387019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021 Oct 25
Event1st ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technologies for Smart Cities with 6G, 6G-ABS 2021, Part of ACM MobiCom 2021 - New Orleans, United States
Duration: 2021 Oct 252021 Oct 29

Publication series

Name6G-ABS 2021 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technologies for Smart Cities with 6G, Part of ACM MobiCom 2021

Conference

Conference1st ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technologies for Smart Cities with 6G, 6G-ABS 2021, Part of ACM MobiCom 2021
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Orleans
Period21/10/2521/10/29

Keywords

  • blockchain
  • data protection
  • industrial internet of things
  • secret sharing
  • shamir

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software

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