Addressless: Enhancing IoT Server Security Using IPv6

Liu, Renjie; Zhe, Weng; Hao, Shanshan; Chang, Deliang; Bao, Changchun; Li, Xing

doi:10.1109/access.2020.2993700

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“…The IPv4 address space is limited and cannot cater for this increase. IPv6 has been employed in many IoT deployments [60]. IPv6 has worked well for IoT scenarios, since it has a 128-bit address space as compared to the 32-bit address space provided by IPv4, but still, the number of IoT devices keeps rising.…”

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On Blockchain and IoT Integration Platforms: Current Implementation Challenges and Future Perspectives

Nartey

Tchao

Gadze

et al. 2021

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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Digitization and automation have engulfed every scope and sphere of life. Internet of Things (IoT) has been the main enabler of the revolution. There still exist challenges in IoT that need to be addressed such as the limited address space for the increasing number of devices when using IPv4 and IPv6 as well as key security issues such as vulnerable access control mechanisms. Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that has immense benefits such as enhanced security and traceability. Thus, blockchain can serve as a good foundation for applications based on transaction and interactions. IoT implementations and applications are by definition distributed. This means blockchain can help to solve most of the security vulnerabilities and traceability concerns of IoTs by using blockchain as a ledger that can keep track of how devices interact, in which state they are and how they transact with other IoT devices. IoT applications have been mainly implemented with technologies such as cloud and fog computing, and AI to help address some of its key challenges. The key implementation challenges and technical choices to consider in making a successful blockchain IoT (BIoT) project are clearly outlined in this paper. The security and privacy aspect of BIoT applications are also analyzed, and several relevant solutions to improve the scalability and throughput of such applications are proposed. The paper also reviews integration schemes and monitoring frameworks for BIoT applications. A hybrid blockchain IoT integration architecture that makes use of containerization is proposed.

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On Blockchain and IoT Integration Platforms: Current Implementation Challenges and Future Perspectives

Nartey

Tchao

Gadze

et al. 2021

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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“…Low-power wireless personal area networks (LoWPANs) have found numerous applications in the Internet of Things (IoT) [ 1 ]. LoWPAN devices are amenable with IEEE 802.15.4 and are constricted in power, communication, data rate, and storage resources [ 2 ]. IEEE 802.15.4-enabled LoWPAN devices are deployed in various real-world applications, such as home automation, healthcare systems, security surveillance, smart grids, and industrial motoring.…”

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A secure remote user authentication scheme for 6LoWPAN-based Internet of Things

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One of the significant challenges in the Internet of Things (IoT) is the provisioning of guaranteed security and privacy, considering the fact that IoT devices are resource-limited. Oftentimes, in IoT applications, remote users need to obtain real-time data, with guaranteed security and privacy, from resource-limited network nodes through the public Internet. For this purpose, the users need to establish a secure link with the network nodes. Though the IPv6 over low-power wireless personal area networks (6LoWPAN) adaptation layer standard offers IPv6 compatibility for resource-limited wireless networks, the fundamental 6LoWPAN structure ignores security and privacy characteristics. Thus, there is a pressing need to design a resource-efficient authenticated key exchange (AKE) scheme for ensuring secure communication in 6LoWPAN-based resource-limited networks. This paper proposes a resource-efficient secure remote user authentication scheme for 6LoWPAN-based IoT networks, called SRUA-IoT. SRUA-IoT achieves the authentication of remote users and enables the users and network entities to establish private session keys between themselves for indecipherable communication. To this end, SRUA-IoT uses a secure hash algorithm, exclusive-OR operation, and symmetric encryption primitive. We prove through informal security analysis that SRUA-IoT is secured against a variety of malicious attacks. We also prove the security strength of SRUA-IoT through formal security analysis conducted by employing the random oracle model. Additionally, we prove through Scyther-based validation that SRUA-IoT is resilient against various attacks. Likewise, we demonstrate that SRUA-IoT reduces the computational cost of the nodes and communication overheads of the network.

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IPv6 addressing scheme to enhance the performance by mitigating reconnaissance attack

Pragya,

Kumar

2023

Internet Technology Letters

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In resource‐constrained networks, IPv6 addresses are assigned to devices using SLAAC‐based EUI‐64, which generates unique addresses. However, the constant interface identifier (IID) across networks makes it vulnerable to reconnaissance attacks like location tracking, network activity correlation, address scanning, etc. This research work introduces a new addressing strategy that utilizes the Elegant Pairing function to guarantee the generation of nonpredictable unique IPv6 addresses, thereby mitigating different types of reconnaissance attacks. The proposed scheme achieves 100% address success rate (ASR) based on experimental evaluation while effectively thwarting reconnaissance attacks. Importantly, it achieves security enhancements without additional communication overhead and energy consumption.

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Addressless: Enhancing IoT Server Security Using IPv6

Cited by 9 publications

References 65 publications

On Blockchain and IoT Integration Platforms: Current Implementation Challenges and Future Perspectives

On Blockchain and IoT Integration Platforms: Current Implementation Challenges and Future Perspectives

A secure remote user authentication scheme for 6LoWPAN-based Internet of Things

IPv6 addressing scheme to enhance the performance by mitigating reconnaissance attack

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