Towards a Secure Signature Scheme Based on Multimodal Biometric Technology: Application for IOT Blockchain Network
Blockchain technology has been commonly used in the last years in numerous fields, such as transactions documenting and monitoring real assets (house, cash) or intangible assets (copyright, intellectual property). The internet of things (IoT) technology, on the other hand, has become the main driver...
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| author | Oday A. Hassen Ansam A. Abdulhussein Saad M. Darwish Zulaiha Ali Othman Sabrina Tiun Yasmin A. Lotfy |
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| description | Blockchain technology has been commonly used in the last years in numerous fields, such as transactions documenting and monitoring real assets (house, cash) or intangible assets (copyright, intellectual property). The internet of things (IoT) technology, on the other hand, has become the main driver of the fourth industrial revolution, and is currently utilized in diverse fields of industry. New approaches have been established through improving the authentication methods in the blockchain to address the constraints of scalability and protection in IoT operating environments of distributed blockchain technology by control of a private key. However, these authentication mechanisms do not consider security when applying IoT to the network, as the nature of IoT communication with numerous entities all the time in various locations increases security risks resulting in extreme asset damage. This posed many difficulties in finding harmony between security and scalability. To address this gap, the work suggested in this paper adapts multimodal biometrics to strengthen network security by extracting a private key with high entropy. Additionally, via a whitelist, the suggested scheme evaluates the security score for the IoT system with a blockchain smart contract to guarantee that highly secured applications authenticate easily and restrict compromised devices. Experimental results indicate that our system is existentially unforgeable to an efficient message attack, and therefore, decreases the expansion of infected devices to the network by up to 49 percent relative to traditional schemes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d579a9400a9846cd9900c80b9d1efcc42023-11-20T17:15:25ZengMDPI AGSymmetry2073-89942020-10-011210169910.3390/sym12101699Towards a Secure Signature Scheme Based on Multimodal Biometric Technology: Application for IOT Blockchain NetworkOday A. Hassen0Ansam A. Abdulhussein1Saad M. Darwish2Zulaiha Ali Othman3Sabrina Tiun4Yasmin A. Lotfy5Ministry of Education, Wasit Education Directorate, Kut 52001, IraqInformation Technology Center, Iraqi Commission for Computers and Informatics, Baghdad 10081, IraqDepartment of Information Technology, Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, Alexandria University, 163 Horreya Avenue, El–Shatby, Alexandria 21526, EgyptCentre of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Information Sciences and Technology, University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi 43600, MalaysiaCentre of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Information Sciences and Technology, University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi 43600, MalaysiaDepartment of Computers, Faculty of Engineering, Pharos University in Alexandria, Alexandria 21648, EgyptBlockchain technology has been commonly used in the last years in numerous fields, such as transactions documenting and monitoring real assets (house, cash) or intangible assets (copyright, intellectual property). The internet of things (IoT) technology, on the other hand, has become the main driver of the fourth industrial revolution, and is currently utilized in diverse fields of industry. New approaches have been established through improving the authentication methods in the blockchain to address the constraints of scalability and protection in IoT operating environments of distributed blockchain technology by control of a private key. However, these authentication mechanisms do not consider security when applying IoT to the network, as the nature of IoT communication with numerous entities all the time in various locations increases security risks resulting in extreme asset damage. This posed many difficulties in finding harmony between security and scalability. To address this gap, the work suggested in this paper adapts multimodal biometrics to strengthen network security by extracting a private key with high entropy. Additionally, via a whitelist, the suggested scheme evaluates the security score for the IoT system with a blockchain smart contract to guarantee that highly secured applications authenticate easily and restrict compromised devices. Experimental results indicate that our system is existentially unforgeable to an efficient message attack, and therefore, decreases the expansion of infected devices to the network by up to 49 percent relative to traditional schemes.https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/12/10/1699blockchain systemIoTpermissioned distributed ledgerbilinear pairingfuzzy identity based signaturemultimodal biometrics |
| spellingShingle | Oday A. Hassen Ansam A. Abdulhussein Saad M. Darwish Zulaiha Ali Othman Sabrina Tiun Yasmin A. Lotfy Towards a Secure Signature Scheme Based on Multimodal Biometric Technology: Application for IOT Blockchain Network Symmetry blockchain system IoT permissioned distributed ledger bilinear pairing fuzzy identity based signature multimodal biometrics |
| title | Towards a Secure Signature Scheme Based on Multimodal Biometric Technology: Application for IOT Blockchain Network |
| title_full | Towards a Secure Signature Scheme Based on Multimodal Biometric Technology: Application for IOT Blockchain Network |
| title_fullStr | Towards a Secure Signature Scheme Based on Multimodal Biometric Technology: Application for IOT Blockchain Network |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards a Secure Signature Scheme Based on Multimodal Biometric Technology: Application for IOT Blockchain Network |
| title_short | Towards a Secure Signature Scheme Based on Multimodal Biometric Technology: Application for IOT Blockchain Network |
| title_sort | towards a secure signature scheme based on multimodal biometric technology application for iot blockchain network |
| topic | blockchain system IoT permissioned distributed ledger bilinear pairing fuzzy identity based signature multimodal biometrics |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/12/10/1699 |
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