An Anonymity and Authentication Mechanism for Internet of Things
Xiaoliang Wang, Xingming Sun, Hengfu Yang, Saeed Arif Shah · Journal of Convergence Information Technology · 2011
Authentication has received increasing attention in the literatures of Internet of Things. At the same time, numerous concerns have been raised about the issue of anonymity due to users’ awareness of their privacy nowadays. How to achieve trade-off between anonymity and certification simultaneously? In this paper, we propose a security architecture to ensure anonymity and certification for Internet of Things. We use pseudonym and threshold secret sharing approach to resolve conflict between anonymity and certification. Moreover, the implementation of Bloom filter offers security authentication for remote command. Security analysis shows that the proposed mechanism can perfectly achieve tradeoff between anonymity, certification, and also resist impersonation, tamper as well as compromise attacks.