A Novel Pyra-Cryptosystem Relying Secure Light-Weight Data Exchange, Peer-to-Peer Authentication, and Secure Communication Session Key Management Approach-Based Model for Internet of Things Network Security

A Novel Pyra-Cryptosystem Relying Secure Light-Weight Data Exchange, Peer-to-Peer Authentication, and Secure Communication Session Key Management Approach-Based Model for Internet of Things Network Security

연구 분야: Cryptography

학회: SN Computer Science

The Internet of Things has such a huge domain of applications that it is very common to locate any IoT device, when we look around the technological things working around us. The diversification of multi-purpose devices and intersection of the technology with heterogeneous cyber-physical devices in a computer network, all have some sort of common Internet based mode for communication and data transfer. This data can be sensitive, confidential, or even useless depending on the nature of protection it requires from the attacker’s target point of view. Just like the IoT heterogeneous devices, there is a variety of technological specifications and hardware configurations around millions of devices working over the internet and constituting the cyberspace domain. IoT networks are implemented in, but not restricted to the areas such as military, agriculture, disaster management, healthcare, daily care, finance management, education, surveillance, automobiles, chemical engineering, robotics, biochemistry etc. All such mentioned fields generate a huge amount of data which is required to be protected against the network attacks. This can be done by boosting the security of the communication channel while keeping the things light weight to deal with the problem of limited resource devices and their scarcity of computational power as well. We propose a light-weight secure session key (Session-SKEY) generation model that relies upon the pyramid structure oriented Pyra-cryptosystem that boosts the cryptographic strength of the IoT network. For mutually authenticating the peer-to-peer devices, we utilize the newly proposed MDSKMA: Mobile Node Mutual authentication and Session key Agreement approached Mutual Authentication mechanism for IoT network. Based on experiments and simulations using hardware (Raspberry Pi), software (NS-3, Miracle) and tools (Proverif), we reached promising results of security and attack deterrence using our proposed Pyra-cryptosystem based security solution for any IoT network. The results and time bound parameter cost calculation were compared in terms of average case, best case, and worst-case estimation.