Title
New directions in IoT privacy using attribute-based authentication.
Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a ubiquitous system that incorporates not only the current Internet of computers, but also smart objects and sensors. IoT technologies often rely on centralised architectures that follow the current business models. This makes efficient data collection and processing possible, which can be beneficial from a business perspective, but has many ramifications for users privacy. As communication within the IoT happens among many devices from various contexts, they need to authenticate each other to know that they talk to the intended party. Authentication, typically including identification, is the proof of identity information. However, transactions linked to the same identifier are traceable, and ultimately make people also traceable, hence their privacy is threatened. We propose a framework to counter this problem. We argue that applying attribute-based (AB) authentication in the context of IoT empowers users to maintain control over what data their devices disclose. At the same time AB authentication provides the possibility of data minimisation and unlinkability of user transactions. Therefore, this approach improves substantially user privacy in the IoT.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
Conf. Computing Frontiers
Data collection,Internet privacy,Authentication,Identifier,Computer security,Computer science,Internet of Things,Minimisation (psychology),Business model,Smart objects,The Internet
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-4128-8
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
11
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gergely Alpár1576.21
Lejla Batina21488107.99
Lynn Margaret Batten328534.39
Veelasha Moonsamy41077.75
Anna Krasnova5553.83
Antoine Guellier640.39
Iynkaran Natgunanathan715210.22