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      An Autonomous Log Storage Management Protocol with Blockchain Mechanism and Access Control for the Internet of Things

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          As the Internet of Things (IoT) has become prevalent, a massive number of logs produced by IoT devices are transmitted and processed every day. The logs should contain important contents and private information. Moreover, these logs may be used as evidences for forensic investigations when cyber security incidents occur. However, evidence legality and internal security issues in existing works were not properly addressed. This paper proposes an autonomous log storage management protocol with blockchain mechanism and access control for the IoT. Autonomous model allows sensors to encrypt their logs before sending it to gateway and server, so that the logs are not revealed to the public during communication process. Along with blockchain, we introduce the concept “ signature chain”. The integration of blockchain and signature chain provides efficient management functions with valuable security properties for the logs, including robust identity verification, data integrity, non-repudiation, data tamper resistance, and the legality. Our work also employs attribute-based encryption to achieve fine-grained access control and data confidentiality. The results of security analysis using AVSIPA toolset, GNY logic and semantic proof indicate that the proposed protocol meets various security requirements. Providing good performance with elliptic curve small key size, short BLS signature, efficient signcryption method, and single sign-on solution, our work is suitable for the IoT.

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                Author and article information

                Journal
                Sensors (Basel)
                Sensors (Basel)
                sensors
                Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
                MDPI
                1424-8220
                12 November 2020
                November 2020
                : 20
                : 22
                : 6471
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department Information Management, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 33302, Taiwan; codychen0704@ 123456gmail.com
                [2 ]Graduate Institute of Business and Management, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 33302, Taiwan; tvle.cgu@ 123456gmail.com
                [3 ]Healthy Aging Research Center, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 33302, Taiwan
                [4 ]Department Visual Communication Design, Ming Chi University of Technology, New Taipei 24301, Taiwan
                [5 ]Department Nursing, Taoyuan Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan
                Author notes
                [* ]Correspondence: clhsu@ 123456mail.cgu.edu.tw
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3105-5939
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3107-7292
                Article
                sensors-20-06471
                10.3390/s20226471
                7697459
                33198399
                85c391cf-d3f2-4b7f-956b-6f3419fb224d
                © 2020 by the authors.

                Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

                History
                : 11 October 2020
                : 10 November 2020
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                Biomedical engineering
                attribute-based access control,digital forensics,evidence legality,sensor log,signature chain

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