Title
A Secured Proxy-Based Data Sharing Module in IoT Environments Using Blockchain.
Abstract
Access and utilization of data are central to the cloud computing paradigm. With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), the tendency of data sharing on the cloud has seen enormous growth. With data sharing comes numerous security and privacy issues. In the process of ensuring data confidentiality and fine-grained access control to data in the cloud, several studies have proposed Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) schemes, with Key Policy-ABE (KP-ABE) being the prominent one. Recent works have however suggested that the confidentiality of data is violated through collusion attacks between a revoked user and the cloud server. We present a secured and efficient Proxy Re-Encryption (PRE) scheme that incorporates an Inner-Product Encryption (IPE) scheme in which decryption of data is possible if the inner product of the private key, associated with a set of attributes specified by the data owner, and the associated ciphertext is equal to zero . We utilize a blockchain network whose processing node acts as the proxy server and performs re-encryption on the data. In ensuring data confidentiality and preventing collusion attacks, the data are divided into two, with one part stored on the blockchain network and the other part stored on the cloud. Our approach also achieves fine-grained access control.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19051235
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE),blockchain,cyber-security,fine-grained access control,Inner-Product Encryption (IPE),Internet of Things (IoT),proxy re-encryption
Computer security,Data sharing,Encryption,Electronic engineering,Access control,Ciphertext,Engineering,Public-key cryptography,Cloud computing,Proxy re-encryption,Proxy server
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
5.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.43
14
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kwame Opuni-Boachie Obour Agyekum140.86
Qi Xia213221.76
Emmanuel Boateng Sifah3807.48
Jianbin Gao4665.18
hu xia562.50
X. Du62320241.73
Mohsen Guizani76456557.44