Toward Practical Privacy-Preserving Processing Over Encrypted Data in IoT: An Assistive Healthcare Use Case

Abstract

With the advancement of Internet of Things (IoT), a large number of electronic devices are connected to the Internet. These connected electronic devices acquire, transmit information and respond to any received actions. In medical ecosystem, hospitals can implement medical diagnosis with medical sensors, especially for remote auxiliary medical diagnosis. But, in this context, patients privacy is paramount importance, and confidentiality of medical data is crucial. Therefore, the main challenge ahead is how to realize remote auxiliary medical diagnosis while protecting confidentiality of the medical data and ensuring patients privacy. In this paper, based on somewhat homomorphic encryption (SHE) scheme addressed by Junfeng Fan and Frederik Vercauteren (FV), we provide the first instance of a new efficient SHE scheme for homomorphic evaluation over Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD). We also implement a new set of efficient SIMD homomorphic comparison and division schemes. Based on these findings, we implement efficient privacy-preserving and SIMD homomorphic surf and multi-retina-image matching schemes. Offered functionalities include SIMD homomorphic feature point detection, multi-retina-image matching and lesion detection for the encrypted retinal image of diabetic retinopathy. Finally, we provide a proof-of-concept application implementation towards remote auxiliary diagnosis systems for diabetes in order to showcase the core security and privacy pillars of our solution. In the meantime, our IoT system designed with lattice-based cryptography preserves data confidentiality under quantum computation and quantum computers.

Reusable Mesh Signature Scheme for Protecting Identity Privacy of IoT Devices

“…Thus, the privacy of IoT devices needs to be focused. It is very important to protect the identities of IoT devices when these devices process and transfer data [44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52]. Then we present a syntax about mesh signature in IoT.…”

Medical Image Transmission Using Novel Crypto-Compression Scheme

“…A new medical image safety system using hyper-chaos in cryptography is suggested in [17]. Combination and distribution approaches are developed in response to safety concerns related to many chaos-based image-encryption systems.…”

Current Research Trends in IoT Security: A Systematic Mapping Study

“…With the spread of IoT applications, smart health is becoming an attractive paradigm. As it deals with user information and sensitive medical information, the security and mutual authentication of medical sensor devices for personal information protection, encryption, and real-time monitoring are key elements [125,[170][171][172][173][174][175][176][177][178][179][180][181].…”