Zhaobin Li^*, Xiantao Liu^*, Nan Zhang, Zhanzhen Wei

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.3, pp. 3835-3854, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.053950 - 12 September 2024

Abstract The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) consists of massive devices in different management domains, and the lack of trust among cross-domain entities leads to risks of data security and privacy leakage during information exchange. To address the above challenges, a viable solution that combines Certificateless Public Key Cryptography (CL-PKC) with blockchain technology can be utilized. However, as many existing schemes rely on a single Key Generation Center (KGC), they are prone to problems such as single points of failure and high computational overhead. In this case, this paper proposes a novel blockchain-based certificateless cross-domain authentication… More >

Nisreen Innab^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.80, No.2, pp. 2237-2258, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.049608 - 15 August 2024

Abstract Internet of Health Things (IoHT) is a subset of Internet of Things (IoT) technology that includes interconnected medical devices and sensors used in medical and healthcare information systems. However, IoHT is susceptible to cybersecurity threats due to its reliance on low-power biomedical devices and the use of open wireless channels for communication. In this article, we intend to address this shortcoming, and as a result, we propose a new scheme called, the certificateless anonymous authentication (CAA) scheme. The proposed scheme is based on hyperelliptic curve cryptography (HECC), an enhanced variant of elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)… More >

Yanzhong Sun¹, Xiaoni Du^1,*, Shufen Niu², Xiaodong Yang²

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.139, No.3, pp. 3287-3310, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.043589 - 11 March 2024

Abstract Traditional email systems can only achieve one-way communication, which means only the receiver is allowed to search for emails on the email server. In this paper, we propose a blockchain-based certificateless bidirectional authenticated searchable encryption model for a cloud email system named certificateless authenticated bidirectional searchable encryption (CL-BSE) by combining the storage function of cloud server with the communication function of email server. In the new model, not only can the data receiver search for the relevant content by generating its own trapdoor, but the data owner also can retrieve the content in the same… More >

Chunlin Xiong^1,2, Zhengqiu Weng^3,4,*, Jia Liu¹, Liang Gu², Fayez Alqahtani⁵, Amr Gafar⁶, Pradip Kumar Sharma⁷

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.3, pp. 3013-3032, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.031088 - 15 December 2023

Abstract With the development of hardware devices and the upgrading of smartphones, a large number of users save privacy-related information in mobile devices, mainly smartphones, which puts forward higher demands on the protection of mobile users’ privacy information. At present, mobile user authentication methods based on human-computer interaction have been extensively studied due to their advantages of high precision and non-perception, but there are still shortcomings such as low data collection efficiency, untrustworthy participating nodes, and lack of practicability. To this end, this paper proposes a privacy-enhanced mobile user authentication method with motion sensors, which mainly… More >

Xiaodong Yang^1,4, Runze Diao^1,*, Tao Liu², Haoqi Wen¹, Caifen Wang³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.2, pp. 1695-1712, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.029461 - 17 November 2023

Abstract The carbon trading market can promote “carbon peaking” and “carbon neutrality” at low cost, but carbon emission quotas face attacks such as data forgery, tampering, counterfeiting, and replay in the electricity trading market. Certificateless signatures are a new cryptographic technology that can address traditional cryptography’s general essential certificate requirements and avoid the problem of crucial escrow based on identity cryptography. However, most certificateless signatures still suffer from various security flaws. We present a secure and efficient certificateless signing scheme by examining the security of existing certificateless signature schemes. To ensure the integrity and verifiability of More >

Qingqing Ning, Chunhua Jin^*, Zhiwei Chen, Yongliang Xu, Huaqi Lu

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.47, No.2, pp. 2061-2078, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.040483 - 28 July 2023

Abstract Wireless body area networks (WBANs) are an emerging technology for the real-time monitoring of physiological signals. WBANs provide a mechanism for collecting, storing, and transmitting physiological data to healthcare providers. However, the open wireless channel and limited resources of sensors bring security challenges. To ensure physiological data security, this paper provides an efficient Certificateless Public Key Infrastructure Heterogeneous Ring Signcryption (CP-HRSC) scheme, in which sensors are in a certificateless cryptosystem (CLC) environment, and the server is in a public key infrastructure (PKI) environment. CLC could solve the limitations of key escrow in identity-based cryptography (IBC)… More >

Lemei Da¹, Hai Liang^1,*, Yong Ding^1,2, Yujue Wang¹, Changsong Yang¹, Huiyong Wang³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.137, No.1, pp. 879-902, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.026309 - 23 April 2023

Abstract The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) self-organizing network is composed of multiple UAVs with autonomous capabilities according to a certain structure and scale, which can quickly and accurately complete complex tasks such as path planning, situational awareness, and information transmission. Due to the openness of the network, the UAV cluster is more vulnerable to passive eavesdropping, active interference, and other attacks, which makes the system face serious security threats. This paper proposes a Blockchain-Based Data Acquisition (BDA) scheme with privacy protection to address the data privacy and identity authentication problems in the UAV-assisted data acquisition scenario.… More >

Chaoyang Li¹, Yanbu Guo¹, Mianxiong Dong^2,*, Gang Xu³, Xiu-Bo Chen⁴, Jian Li⁴, Kaoru Ota²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.75, No.1, pp. 2043-2059, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.033670 - 06 February 2023

Abstract Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) plays an essential role in collecting and managing personal medical data. In recent years, blockchain technology has put power in traditional IoMT systems for data sharing between different medical institutions and improved the utilization of medical data. However, some problems in the information transfer process between wireless medical devices and mobile medical apps, such as information leakage and privacy disclosure. This paper first designs a cross-device key agreement model for blockchain-enabled IoMT. This model can establish a key agreement mechanism for secure medical data sharing. Meanwhile, a certificateless authenticated key… More >

Meng-Wei Zhang¹, Xiu-Bo Chen¹, Haseeb Ahmad², Gang Xu^3,4,*, Yi-Xian Yang¹

Journal of Cyber Security, Vol.4, No.1, pp. 29-39, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jcs.2022.027693 - 05 May 2022

Abstract Blockchain has a profound impact on all areas of society by virtue of its immutability, decentralization and other characteristics. However, blockchain faces the problem of data privacy leakage during the application process, and the rapid development of quantum computing also brings the threat of quantum attack to blockchain. In this paper, we propose a lattice-based certificateless fully homomorphic encryption (LCFHE) algorithm based on approximate eigenvector firstly. And we use the lattice-based delegate algorithm and preimage sampling algorithm to extract part of the private key based on certificateless scheme, which is composed of the private key More >

P. Saravanakumar¹, T. V. P. Sundararajan², Rajesh Kumar Dhanaraj³, Kashif Nisar^4,*, Fida Hussain Memon^5,6, Ag. Asri Bin Ag. Ibrahim⁴

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.33, No.3, pp. 1835-1847, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.018953 - 24 March 2022

Abstract Confidentiality and data integrity are essential paradigms in data aggregation owing to the various cyberattacks in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This study proposes a novel technique named Lamport certificateless signcryption-based shift-invariant connectionist artificial deep neural networks (LCS-SICADNN) by using artificial deep neural networks to develop the data aggregation security model. This model utilises the input layer with several sensor nodes, four hidden layers to overcome different attacks (data injection, compromised node, Sybil and black hole attacks) and the output layer to analyse the given input. The Lamport one-time certificateless signcryption technique involving three different processes… More >