TY - JOUR
T1 - Identity-Based Key Agreement for Blockchain-Powered Intelligent Edge
AU - Zhang, Jie
AU - Zhang, Futai
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62172096 and Grant 62002296; in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant BK20200250; and in part by the XJTLU Key Programme Special Fund under Grant KSF-E-54.
Publisher Copyright:
IEEE
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In the new paradigm of blockchain-powered intelligent edge, the key agreement is a significant problem which has not been extensively studied so far. Existing key agreement protocols in the traditional public-key setting are usually too complicated and heavy for edge and end devices. Besides, most protocols in use do not have effective measures to resist side-channel attacks which are increasingly threatening cloud servers, edge devices and end devices. Identity (ID)-based protocols can be conveniently implemented in the blockchain-powered intelligent edge. Several leakage-resilient ID-based protocols which can resist side-channel attacks have been proposed. However, they all involve time-consuming pairing computations. Besides, none of them address side-channel attacks to the key generation center (KGC). This paper designs and realizes two novel ID-based key agreement protocols for the blockchain-powered intelligent edge, including an extended Canetti-Krawczyk (eCK) secure ID-based authenticated key agreement (AKA) protocol and a continuous after-the-fact leakage-resilient eCK (CAFL-eCK) secure ID-based AKA protocol. Both protocols do not involve any heavy pairing computation. Besides, the second one can resist side-channel attacks to the KGC and the communicating parties. A hybrid implementation of the two protocols can achieve high efficiency and strong security at the same time in blockchain-powered intelligent edge environments. This is demonstrated via a use case of a blockchain-powered smart home.
AB - In the new paradigm of blockchain-powered intelligent edge, the key agreement is a significant problem which has not been extensively studied so far. Existing key agreement protocols in the traditional public-key setting are usually too complicated and heavy for edge and end devices. Besides, most protocols in use do not have effective measures to resist side-channel attacks which are increasingly threatening cloud servers, edge devices and end devices. Identity (ID)-based protocols can be conveniently implemented in the blockchain-powered intelligent edge. Several leakage-resilient ID-based protocols which can resist side-channel attacks have been proposed. However, they all involve time-consuming pairing computations. Besides, none of them address side-channel attacks to the key generation center (KGC). This paper designs and realizes two novel ID-based key agreement protocols for the blockchain-powered intelligent edge, including an extended Canetti-Krawczyk (eCK) secure ID-based authenticated key agreement (AKA) protocol and a continuous after-the-fact leakage-resilient eCK (CAFL-eCK) secure ID-based AKA protocol. Both protocols do not involve any heavy pairing computation. Besides, the second one can resist side-channel attacks to the KGC and the communicating parties. A hybrid implementation of the two protocols can achieve high efficiency and strong security at the same time in blockchain-powered intelligent edge environments. This is demonstrated via a use case of a blockchain-powered smart home.
KW - blockchain
KW - Blockchains
KW - Cloud computing
KW - Computational modeling
KW - identity-based key agreement
KW - intelligent edge
KW - intelligent Internet of Things.
KW - leakage resilience
KW - Protocols
KW - Resists
KW - Security
KW - Side-channel attacks
KW - side-channel attacks
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U2 - 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3111552
DO - 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3111552
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85114729990
JO - IEEE Internet of Things Journal
JF - IEEE Internet of Things Journal
ER -