Guest Editorial The Convergence of Blockchain and IoT: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions
Qing Bo Yang, Rongxing Lu, Chunming Rong, Yacine Challal, Maryline Laurent, Shengling Wang · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 2019
Internet of Things (IoT), coming with billions of connected devices, could potentially transform our daily life but could also create a serious security headache. It brings greater complications in securely accessing these devices with privacy protection guaranteed, and several research issues need to be investigated in detail, e.g., access control, traceability, anonymity, authentication, security bootstrap, etc. Most of the traditional security protection mechanisms are centralized, which make them difficult to scale up to meet the security demands of the IoT.