Secure and Efficient Implicit Certificates: Improving the Performance for Host Identity Protocol in IoT

Implicit certificates own the shorter public key validation data. This property makes them appealing in resource-constrained IoT systems where public-key authentication is performed very often, which is common in Host Identity Protocol (HIP). However, it is still a critical challenge in IoT how to guarantee the security and efficiency of implicit certificates. This article presents a forgery attack for the Privacy-aware HIP (P-HIP), and then propose a Secure and Efficient Implicit Certificate (SEIC) scheme that can improve the security of the P-HIP and the efficiency of elliptic-curve point multiplications for IoT devices. For a fix-point multiplication, the proposed approach is about 1.5 times faster than the method in SIMPL scheme. Furthermore, we improve the performance of SEIC with the butterfly key expansion process, and then construct an improved P-HIP. Experimental results show that compare to the existing schemes, the improved scheme makes a user/device have both the smallest computation cost and the smallest communication cost.

@article{Lu2022,
  title     = {Secure and Efficient Implicit Certificates: Improving the Performance for Host Identity Protocol in IoT},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {13},
  number    = {8},
  year      = {2022},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Zhaokang Lu and Jianzhu Lu},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2022.01308105},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.01308105}
}