Senshan Ouyang^1,2, Xiang Liu², Lei Liu², Shangchao Wang², Baichuan Shao³, Yang Zhao^3,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.1, pp. 903-915, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.028895

Abstract With the continuous expansion of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), more and more organisations are placing large amounts of data in the cloud to reduce overheads. However, the channel between cloud servers and smart equipment is not trustworthy, so the issue of data authenticity needs to be addressed. The SM2 digital signature algorithm can provide an authentication mechanism for data to solve such problems. Unfortunately, it still suffers from the problem of key exposure. In order to address this concern, this study first introduces a key-insulated scheme, SM2-KI-SIGN, based on the SM2 algorithm. This scheme boasts strong key insulation… More >

Caifen Wang^1,*, Bin Wu²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.136, No.2, pp. 1857-1878, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.026153

Abstract The mushroom growth of IoT has been accompanied by the generation of massive amounts of data. Subject to the limited storage and computing capabilities of most IoT devices, a growing number of institutions and organizations outsource their data computing tasks to cloud servers to obtain efficient and accurate computation while avoiding the cost of local data computing. One of the most important challenges facing outsourcing computing is how to ensure the correctness of computation results. Linearly homomorphic proxy signature (LHPS) is a desirable solution to ensure the reliability of outsourcing computing in the case of authorized signing right. Blockchain has… More >

Sumaira Azhar¹, Naveed Ahmed Azam^2,*, Umar Hayat¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 4971-4988, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.023685

Abstract The demand for data security schemes has increased with the significant advancement in the field of computation and communication networks. We propose a novel three-step text encryption scheme that has provable security against computation attacks such as key attack and statistical attack. The proposed scheme is based on the Pell sequence and elliptic curves, where at the first step the plain text is diffused to get a meaningless plain text by applying a cyclic shift on the symbol set. In the second step, we hide the elements of the diffused plain text from the attackers. For this purpose, we use… More >

Fairuz Shohaimay^1,2, Eddie Shahril Ismail^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 6125-6145, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.022759

Abstract Communication technology has advanced dramatically amid the 21^st century, increasing the security risk in safeguarding sensitive information. The remote password authentication (RPA) scheme is the simplest cryptosystem that serves as the first line of defence against unauthorised entity attacks. Although the literature contains numerous RPA schemes, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, only few schemes based on the integer factorisation problem (IFP) and the discrete logarithm problem (DLP) that provided a provision for session key agreement to ensure proper mutual authentication. Furthermore, none of the previous schemes provided formal security proof using the random oracle model. Therefore, this study… More >

Yongli Tang¹, Huanhuan Lian¹, Zemao Zhao², Xixi Yan^1,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.56, No.2, pp. 339-352, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/cmc.2018.02965

Abstract With the widespread use of cloud computing technology, more and more users and enterprises decide to store their data in a cloud server by outsourcing. However, these huge amounts of data may contain personal privacy, business secrets and other sensitive information of the users and enterprises. Thus, at present, how to protect, retrieve, and legally use the sensitive information while preventing illegal accesses are security challenges of data storage in the cloud environment. A new proxy re-encryption with keyword search scheme is proposed in this paper in order to solve the problem of the low retrieval efficiency of the encrypted… More >