Novel Blockchain-Integrated Quantum-Resilient Self-Certified Authentication Protocol for Cross-Industry Communications

IF 6.7 2区计算机科学 Q1 ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI:10.1109/TNSE.2024.3428916

Hadi Ghaemi;Dariush Abbasinezhad-Mood

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Abstract

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) aims at improving the manufacturing cost and quality by inter-connection of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices. In the 4IR, IIoT-based machines need to collaborate securely and autonomously through the insecure Internet channel. Although various blockchain-based protocols have been introduced for securing cross-industry Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, they, are insecure to some cyberattacks, rely on some intermediary servers for successful M2M authentication, are not efficient enough to be employed in the context of IIoT environments, and are not resilient to quantum computers. To address these weaknesses, this paper suggests a novel quantum-resilient self-certified authentication protocol for cross-industry communications using the cutting-edge blockchain technology. Thanks to the blockchain ledger, the cross-industry connections have been facilitated and thanks to the self-certified approach, the blockchain referrals have been reduced to only one ledger reading. In our protocol, no intermediary server needs to involve and IIoT machines can directly authenticate each other. The advantages and efficiency enhancements of our protocol, compared to top-related ones, are shown, respectively, by comparative property and performance analyses. Specifically, our protocol indicates 13% and 91% improvements in communication and computation overheads over the most efficient protocol.

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用于跨行业通信的新型区块链集成量子弹性自我认证协议

第四次工业革命（4IR）旨在通过工业物联网（IIoT）设备的互联提高制造成本和质量。在 4IR 中，基于 IIoT 的机器需要通过不安全的互联网渠道进行安全、自主的协作。虽然已经推出了各种基于区块链的协议来确保跨行业机器对机器（M2M）通信的安全，但这些协议对某些网络攻击不安全，需要依赖一些中间服务器才能成功进行 M2M 身份验证，在 IIoT 环境下使用不够高效，而且对量子计算机没有弹性。针对这些弱点，本文提出了一种新型的抗量子自我认证认证协议，利用最前沿的区块链技术实现跨行业通信。得益于区块链账本，跨行业连接变得更加便利；得益于自我认证方法，区块链转介减少到只需读取一个账本。在我们的协议中，无需中间服务器参与，物联网机器可以直接相互认证。我们的协议与其他相关协议相比，通过属性和性能对比分析，分别显示了其优势和效率提升。具体来说，与最高效的协议相比，我们的协议在通信和计算开销方面分别提高了 13% 和 91%。

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IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering Engineering-Control and Systems Engineering

CiteScore

12.60

自引率

9.10%

发文量

393

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