Blockchain-based Authentication Scheme in Oil and Gas Industry Data with Thermal CCTV Cameras Applications to Mitigate Sybil and 51% Cyber Attacks
International journal of intelligent engineering and systems · 2024
Oil and gas fields represent the backbone of industries.Such industries are exposed to many physical risks, such as sabotage and oil and gas leaks, theft of equipment, and technological hazards (e.g., exposure to hacking of security and sensitive information by attackers).In this regard, a variety of decentralized studies still suffer from storage limitations, long response times, high costs, and redundant or unnecessary data storage due to false positive transmission, as well as 51%, Sybil, Sniffing, Eavesdropping, Spoofing, Phishing, and Social engineering attacks.Our paper proposes the utilization of surveillance thermal CCTV cameras based on Hyberledger Fabric blockchain to enhance safety and security in oil and gas fields.The proposed scheme incorporates fog nodes to facilitate the authentication process and reduce the time response.Our system also adopts InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) storage that enables scalability and provides hash-based integrity to stored data.Moreover, IPFS integrates with cuckoo filters to reduce superfluous or unneeded data.Our work offers low-complexity authentication utilizing ECDSA, balancing high security and complexity, and resisting well-known malicious and cyberattacks.Furthermore, the proposed scheme has been verified its validation by proving its resistance to attacks.Compared with related literature that used the blockchain or fog computing technology, the performance analysis accomplished the lowest cost results (52,000736 ms) in the computation cost and (800 bits for each user, and CCTV) in the communication cost.It is worth noting that we relied on reliable sources to calculate these results.