BCE-PPDS: Blockchain-based cloud–edge collaborative privacy-preserving data sharing scheme for IoT

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) devices generate large amounts of data every day that can be combined with intelligent platforms for predictive analytics and scientific research. However, concerns about privacy and security hinder the willingness of individuals to share data. Blockchain emerged as a promising infrastructure for facilitating secure data sharing due to its decentralized, immutability, and auditable benefits. In this paper, we propose a blockchain-based cloud–edge collaborative privacy protection data sharing scheme (BCE-PPDS), which is decentralized and enables data requesters (DRs) to search data resources using smart contracts to efficiently obtain target data. To protect the identity privacy of data owners (DOs), we propose a novel certificateless linkable ring signature algorithm with efficient performance. This algorithm is not only suitable for deployment on resource-limited IoT devices, so that DOs can realize anonymous identity authentication, but also can aggregate the generated ring signatures for batch verification, so as to improve the efficiency of signature verification. In addition, we designed a key distribution algorithm using the Asmuth–Bloom secret sharing scheme to ensure the security of the key. Under the random oracle model, BCE-PPDS is provably secure. The experimental results verify that BCE-PPDS is efficient and practical.