LiSP-XK: Extended Light-Weight Signcryption for IoT in Resource-Constrained Environments

Kim, Tai-Hoon; Kumar, Gulshan; Saha, Rahul; Buchanan, William J.; Devgun, Tannishtha; Thomas, Reji

Abstract

There is an increasing drive to provide improved levels of trust within an Internet-of-Things (IoTs) environments, but the devices and sensors used tend to be limited in their capabilities for dealing with traditional cryptography methods. Resource constraints and security are often the two major concerns of IIoT (Industrial IoT applications and big data generation at the present time. The strict security measures are often not significantly resource-managed and therefore, negotiation normally takes place between these. Following this, various lightweight versions of generic security primitives have been developed for IIoT and other resource-constrained sustainability. In this paper, we address the authentication concerns for resource-constrained environments by designing an efficient authentication protocol. Our authentication scheme is based on LiSP (light-weight Signcryption Protocol); however, some further customization has been performed on it to make it more suitable for IIoT-like resource-constrained environments. We use Keccack as the hash function in the process and Elli for lightweight public-key cryptography. We name our authentication scheme: Extended lightweight Signcryption Protocol with Keccack (LiSP-XK). The paper outlines a comparative analysis on our new design of authentication against a range of state-of-the-art schemes. We find the suitability of LiSP-XK for IIoT like environments due to its lesser complexity and less energy consumption. Moreover, the signcryption process is also beneficial in enhancing security. Overall the paper shows that LiSP-XK is overall 35% better in efficiency as compared to the other signcryption approaches.

Citation

Kim, T.-H., Kumar, G., Saha, R., Buchanan, W. J., Devgun, T., & Thomas, R. (2021). LiSP-XK: Extended Light-Weight Signcryption for IoT in Resource-Constrained Environments. IEEE Access, 9, 100972-100980. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2021.3097267

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 12, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Jul 15, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Deposit Date: Jul 23, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 23, 2021
• Journal: IEEE Access
• Electronic ISSN: 2169-3536
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 9
• Pages: 100972-100980
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2021.3097267
• Keywords: Internet, IoT, security, authentication, signcryption, attacks
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2788623
• Publisher URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9486884