SmartCrypt: Secure Storing and Sharing of Time Series Data Streams in IIoT

Abstract

To provide ubiquitous access, scalability and sharing possibilities, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications utilize the cloud to store collected data streams. However, secure storing and sharing of the massive and continuously generated data poses significant privacy risks, including data breaches. This paper proposes SmartCrypt, a data storing and sharing system that supports analytics over the encrypted time series data. SmartCrypt enables users to secure and fine-grain sharing of their encrypted data using a novel symmetric homomorphic encryption scheme. Simulation results show that SmartCrypt reduces query time by 17% and improves through-put by 9% over the benchmark scheme.