Paper Info
Title
Quantum-Inspired Blockchain-Based Cybersecurity: Securing Smart Edge Utilities in IoT-Based Smart Cities
Abstract
Blockchain plays a vital task in cybersecurity. With the exerted efforts for realising large-scale quantum computers, most current cryptographic mechanisms may be hacked. Accordingly, we need a quantum tool utilised for designing blockchain frameworks to have the ability to be executed in the level of digital computers and resist the probable attacks from both digital and quantum computers. Quantum walks may be utilised as a quantum-inspired model for designing new cryptographic algorithms. In this paper, we present a new authentication and encryption protocol based on quantum-inspired quantum walks (QIQW). The proposed protocol is utilized to build a blockchain framework for secure data transmission among IoT devices. Instead of using classical cryptographic hash functions, quantum hash functions based on QIQW are employed for linking blocks of the chain. The main advantages of the presented framework are helping IoT nodes to effectively share their data with other nodes and full control of their records. Security analysis demonstrates that our proposed protocol can defend against message attack and impersonation attacks, thus ensuring secure transmission of data among IoT devices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1016/j.ipm.2021.102549
Information Processing & Management
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Blockchain,IoT,Smart City,Cybersecurity,Authentication,Encryption,Quantum Computation,Quantum-inspired,Quantum walks
Journal
58
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0306-4573
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif130.39
Bassem Abd-El-Atty2346.83
Irfan Mehmood352230.84
Khan Muhammad498667.67
Salvador E. Venegas-Andraca5635.27
Jialiang Peng6798.19