Light-weight internet-of-things device authentication, encryption and key distribution using end-to-end neural cryptosystems
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Sun, Yingnan
Lo, Frank P-W
Lo, Benny
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Device authentication, encryption, and key distribution are of vital importance to any Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems, such as the new smart city infrastructures. This is due to the concern that attackers could easily exploit the lack of strong security in IoT devices to gain unauthorized access to the system or to hijack IoT devices to perform denial-of-service attacks on other networks. With the rise of fog and edge computing in IoT systems, increasing numbers of IoT devices have been equipped with computing capabilities to perform data analysis with deep learning technologies. Deep learning on edge devices can be deployed in numerous applications, such as local cardiac arrhythmia detection on a smart sensing patch, but it is rarely applied to device authentication and wireless communication encryption. In this paper, we propose a novel lightweight IoT device authentication, encryption, and key distribution approach using neural cryptosystems and binary latent space. The neural cryptosystems adopt three types of end-to-end encryption schemes: symmetric, public-key, and without keys. A series of experiments were conducted to test the performance and security strength of the proposed neural cryptosystems. The experimental results demonstrate the potential of this novel approach as a promising security and privacy solution for the next-generation of IoT systems.
Date Issued
2022-08-15
Date Acceptance
2021-01-01
Citation
IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022, 9 (16), pp.14978-14987
ISSN
2327-4662
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
14978
End Page
14987
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Volume
9
Issue
16
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
British Council (UK)
Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9381407
Grant Number
540213 SeNTH plus
OPP1171395
OPP1171395
330760239
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Computer Science, Information Systems
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Telecommunications
Computer Science
Engineering
Cryptography
Neural networks
Encryption
Security
Deep learning
Training
Biological neural networks
Authentication
binary latent space
cryptography
deep learning
encryption
Internet of Things (IoT)
0805 Distributed Computing
1005 Communications Technologies
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2021-03-18