An ICMetrics Based Lightweight Security Architecture Using Lattice Signcryption

Abstract

The advent of embedded systems has completely transformed the information landscape. With the explosive growth in the use of interactive real-time technologies, this internet landscape aims to support an even broader range of application domains. The large amount of data that is exchanged by these applications has made them an attractive target for attacks. Thus it is important to employ security mechanisms to protect these systems from attackers. A major challenge facing researchers is the resource constrained nature of these systems, which renders most of the traditional security mechanisms almost useless. In this paper we propose a lightweight ICmetrics based security architecture using lattices. The features of the proposed architecture fulfill both the requirements of security as well as energy efficiency. The proposed architecture provides authentication, confidentiality, non-repudiation and integrity of data. Using the identity information derived from ICmetrics of the device, we further construct a signcryption scheme based on lattices that makes use of certificateless PKC to achieve the security requirements of the design. This scheme is targeted on resource constrained environments, and can be used widely in applications that require sufficient levels of security with limited resources.

On the Incorporation of Secure Filter in ICMetrics Group Communications

“…One of the prominent is the integration of ICMetrics into an intelligent wheel chair formally known as the SYSIASS project [9]. Research has also been done on how ICMetrics can be incorporated into specialized areas like document archival in cloud computing [10] and also wireless sensor networks [17].Concurrent work is also underway that promotes the use of ICMetrics in one to one communications [11]. But until now no work has been done on the use of ICMetrics for secure group communications.…”

On Secure Group Admission Control Using ICMetrics

“…The use of a hash function thus converts a length of text into seemingly random text outputs. This means that no matter how big the original text is the hash algorithm produces a single output of a relatively smaller length of text [10] [11]. Hashing has been used for many purposes like to verify if a file/ text has been modified.…”

A Scheme for the Generation of Strong ICMetrics Based Session Key Pairs for Secure Embedded System Applications

“…After each ICMetric key generation stage the produced ICMetric key [13] is temporary and exists only locally, and the reproduction of the ICMetric key once again takes place from measurable characteristics of the integrated circuit [10]. The ICMetric key is generated each time it is requested for identification or encryption functions.…”