Article: A security control scheme based on quantum keys for IoT terminals Journal: International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN) 2023 Vol.18 No.3 pp.189 - 198 Abstract: With the development of computer technology and the continuous improvement of computing power, the security control of internet of things terminals has received great attention. This paper proposes a security control scheme based on quantum keys for the internet of things terminals. In the wide area network, the control commands between Alice and Bob are transmitted by quantum key encryption. In the local area network, Bob sends the decrypted plaintext to the LED microcontroller board to execute the control instruction. This paper also designs a two-way identity authentication scheme based on a hash function, a sliding window key synchronisation scheme, and an eavesdropping experiment. Through experiments, the quantum key encoding rate of the quantum key distribution system is 7.4 kbps, the average time for Alice to send instructions is 141.6 ms, the average time for Bob to decrypt instructions is 12.4 ms, and the average time for key synchronisation in the time sliding pane is 116 ms. Even after stealing Alice's ciphertext data, Eve still cannot recover the plaintext data. The scheme realises the security control of the internet of things terminal. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: A security control scheme based on quantum keys for IoT terminals

Authors: Dexin Zhu; Xiaogang Du; Jigui Mao; Lijun Song

Addresses: College of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun University, Changchun, 130022, China ' College of Science, Changchun University, Changchun, 130022, China ' College of Science, Changchun University, Changchun, 130022, China ' Jilin Engineering Laboratory for Quantum Information Technology, Changchun, 130062, China

Abstract: With the development of computer technology and the continuous improvement of computing power, the security control of internet of things terminals has received great attention. This paper proposes a security control scheme based on quantum keys for the internet of things terminals. In the wide area network, the control commands between Alice and Bob are transmitted by quantum key encryption. In the local area network, Bob sends the decrypted plaintext to the LED microcontroller board to execute the control instruction. This paper also designs a two-way identity authentication scheme based on a hash function, a sliding window key synchronisation scheme, and an eavesdropping experiment. Through experiments, the quantum key encoding rate of the quantum key distribution system is 7.4 kbps, the average time for Alice to send instructions is 141.6 ms, the average time for Bob to decrypt instructions is 12.4 ms, and the average time for key synchronisation in the time sliding pane is 116 ms. Even after stealing Alice's ciphertext data, Eve still cannot recover the plaintext data. The scheme realises the security control of the internet of things terminal.

Keywords: internet of things; IoT; security control; quantum key; key synchronisation; quantum key distribution; QKD.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSN.2023.134123

International Journal of Security and Networks, 2023 Vol.18 No.3, pp.189 - 198

Received: 20 Mar 2023
Accepted: 21 Mar 2023
Published online: 11 Oct 2023 *

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