Blockchain-Based PKI for Crowdsourced IoT Sensor Information

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2018

Authors

Guilherme Vieira Pinto (Author) Other; João Pedro Dias (Author) FEUP; Hugo Sereno Ferreira (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

Pages: 248-257

10th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, SoCPaR 2018

13 December 2018 through 15 December 2018

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Scopus - 4 Citations

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Authenticus ID: P-00N-ZWR

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-17065-3_25

Abstract (EN): The Internet of Things is progressively getting broader, evolving its scope while creating new markets and adding more to the existing ones. However, both generation and analysis of large amounts of data, which are integral to this concept, may require the proper protection and privacy-awareness of some sensitive information. In order to control the access to this data, allowing devices to verify the reliability of their own interactions with other endpoints of the network is a crucial step to ensure this required safeness. Through the implementation of a blockchain-based Public Key Infrastructure connected to the Keybase platform, it is possible to achieve a simple protocol that binds devices¿ public keys to their owner accounts, which are respectively supported by identity proofs. The records of this blockchain represent digital signatures performed by this Keybase users on their respective devices¿ public keys, claiming their ownership. Resorting to this distributed and decentralized PKI, any device is able to autonomously verify the entity in control of a certain node of the network and prevent future interactions with unverified parties. © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 10