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Self-secure Communication for Internet of Things

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Cryptographic key management is a challenge for the large scale deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It is difficult to properly setup and constantly update keys for numerous IoT devices, especially when these devices are restricted by size and lack of the key input interface. This paper proposes a lightweight key management scheme which embeds the key distribution and update process into the communication process. The keys are constantly changing as the communication data flowing back and forth between IoT devices. Therefore even if a key is stolen by the attacker, it will quickly become invalid as the communication goes on. The proposed scheme also contains a key initialization protocol which generates independent keys for multiple IoT devices simultaneously. This paper describes the protocols in detail and analyzes its security properties. The practicality of the protocol is verified by experiments.

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  1. College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China

    Bin Hao & Sheng Xiao

  2. National 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center for High Performance Computing, Changsha, China

    Bin Hao & Sheng Xiao

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  2. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA

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Hao, B., Xiao, S. (2021). Self-secure Communication for Internet of Things. In: Jiang, H., Wu, H., Zeng, F. (eds) Edge Computing and IoT: Systems, Management and Security. ICECI 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 368. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73429-9_10

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