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Hyper Elliptic Curve Based Certificateless Signcryption Scheme for Secure IIoT Communications

Usman Ali^1,2, Mohd Yamani Idna Idris^1,3,*, Jaroslav Frnda⁴, Mohamad Nizam Bin Ayub¹, Roobaea Alroobaea⁵, Fahad Almansour⁶, Nura Modi Shagari¹, Insaf Ullah⁷, Ihsan Ali¹
1 Department of Computer System and Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 50603, Malaysia
2 Department of Computer Science, University of Swat, Saidu Sharif, 19130, Pakistan
3 Center for Research in Mobile Cloud Computing, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 50603, Malaysia
4 Department of Quantitative Methods and Economic Informatics, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Zilina, 010 26 Zilina, Slovakia
5 Department of Computer Science, College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia
6 Department of Computer Science, College of Sciences and Arts in Rass, Qassim University, Buraydah, 51452, Saudi Arabia
7 Department of Computer Science, Hamdard Institute of Engineering and Technology, Islamabad, 44000, Pakistan
* Corresponding Author: Mohd Yamani Idna Idris. Email:
(This article belongs to this Special Issue: Next - Generation Secure Solutions for Wireless Communications, IoT and SDNs)

Computers, Materials & Continua 2022, 71(2), 2515-2532. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2022.019800

Received 26 April 2021; Accepted 30 June 2021; Issue published 07 December 2021

Abstract

Industrial internet of things (IIoT) is the usage of internet of things (IoT) devices and applications for the purpose of sensing, processing and communicating real-time events in the industrial system to reduce the unnecessary operational cost and enhance manufacturing and other industrial-related processes to attain more profits. However, such IoT based smart industries need internet connectivity and interoperability which makes them susceptible to numerous cyber-attacks due to the scarcity of computational resources of IoT devices and communication over insecure wireless channels. Therefore, this necessitates the design of an efficient security mechanism for IIoT environment. In this paper, we propose a hyperelliptic curve cryptography (HECC) based IIoT Certificateless Signcryption (IIoT-CS) scheme, with the aim of improving security while lowering computational and communication overhead in IIoT environment. HECC with 80-bit smaller key and parameters sizes offers similar security as elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) with 160-bit long key and parameters sizes. We assessed the IIoT-CS scheme security by applying formal and informal security evaluation techniques. We used Real or Random (RoR) model and the widely used automated validation of internet security protocols and applications (AVISPA) simulation tool for formal security analysis and proved that the IIoT-CS scheme provides resistance to various attacks. Our proposed IIoT-CS scheme is relatively less expensive compared to the current state-of-the-art in terms of computational cost and communication overhead. Furthermore, the IIoT-CS scheme is 31.25% and 51.31% more efficient in computational cost and communication overhead, respectively, compared to the most recent protocol.

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Keywords

IoT security; authentication protocols; hyperelliptic curve cryptography; certificateless public key cryptography

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