Fractional chaotic maps based short signature scheme under human-centered IoT environments

Abstract

Introduction: The Internet of Things (IoT) comprises of various smart devices for the sharing of sensed data through online services. People will be directly contacted to check their health parameters and the reports will be collected centrally through smart devices. The requirement is protection of messages during the exchange of data between sender and receiver in order to tackle human malicious attacks. Various signature-based schemes are discussed in the literature to provide secure communication. Smart devices however require lightweight tasks by ensuring critical safety strengths. An important problem in the signature based method is that it incurs more computational expenses for signing and verification process in large numbers.

Objectives: In this study, we introduced an efficient Short Signature Scheme (SSS) that uses Fractional Chaotic Map (FCM) for secure communication in IoT based smart devices, the security of which is closely related to a random oracle based on FCM assumption.

Methods: In this study, we have designed new short signature scheme using FCM. The presented scheme consist of four sub-algorithm as follows: setup, key generation, signing and verification. We have used less rigorous operations based on the FCM to carry out signing and verification procedures, similar to human signing on valid documents and then verifying them as per witness.

Results: The proposed SSS offers a better security assurance than currently established signature schemes. The key advantage of the SSS over the DSA schemes is that at the verification stage and signing period it takes less computation; it retains the degree of protection. The presented SSS takes less bandwidth for storage, communication, and computing resources; particularly applicable to wireless devices and smart cards.

Conclusion: We concluded that the uses of fractional chaotic maps is more effective for secure communication in human-centered IoT to present a provably secure short signature technique.

Keywords: Chaotic systems; Confidentiality; Fractional chaotic map; Internet of Things (IoT); Probability security analysis; Short signature scheme.