Title: A lightweight authentication and secure data access between fog and IoT user

Authors: Arun Murugesan; Balamurali Saminathan; Fadi Al-Turjman; R. Lakshmana Kumar

Addresses: Department of Computer Applications, School of Computing, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Anand Nagar, Krishnan Koil, 626-126, Virudhunagar, DT, Tamil Nadu, India ' Department of Computer Applications, School of Computing, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Anand Nagar, Krishnan Koil, 626-126, Virudhunagar, DT, Tamil Nadu, India ' Research Center for AI and IoT, Artificial Intelligence Engineering Department, Near East University, Nicosia, Mersin 10, Turkey ' Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore-32, India

Abstract: The advent of the internet of things (IoT) links millions of computers and sensors to each other, generating a massive volume of data, but due to latency, bandwidth and storage issues some computational paradigm is required near the edge devices. Within the IoT, fog computing offers computation, storage, and network resources to end-users. The assurance of protection is important because the services of fog computing are available to a wide number of IoT customers. This paper proposes an effective authentication and secure data access between fog and IoT users to achieve authentication and access to data and also a cipher policy-based homomorphic Paillier encryption (CP-HPE), for secure data access between fog node and user. The security and performance analysis show the scheme is apt for fog computing with IoT environment.

Keywords: mutual authentication; sensitive information; internet of things; IoT; fog; key; attribute-based encryption/decryption.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEB.2021.112766

International Journal of Electronic Business, 2021 Vol.16 No.1, pp.77 - 87

Received: 13 Feb 2020
Accepted: 30 Mar 2020
Published online: 02 Feb 2021 *

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