SIoT identity management with the ability to preserve owner privacy and built-in resistance to Sybil attacks

【Author】 Dayyani, Aboulfazl; Abbaspour, Maghsoud

【Source】CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION-PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE

【影响因子】1.831

【Abstract】The Social Internet of Things (SIoT) allows for more efficient and intelligent communication between entities (humans and objects). Managing the digital identity of objects, protecting the owner's privacy, and resisting impersonation attacks are crucial challenges in SIoT. On the other hand, the classic centralized identity provider servers contain valuable information for hackers and malicious parties. Effective solutions can be presented using decentralized technologies such as blockchains. This paper proposes a decentralized identity management system for SIoT based on smart contract technology. This system drives object identity control; conversely, a zero-knowledge-based protocol and double-spend prevention ideas are proposed for privacy preservation and Sybil attack resistance, respectively. The central idea is to implement self-sovereign identity (SSI) so that even certifiers are not privy to object-sensitive information. Additionally, it attempts to prevent the owner from creating Sybil objects using the web of trust method. The method's scalability and convergence can be proven by considering all acknowledgment nodes and different paths. This method was compared with the most novel available methods; the results from this comparison depict the scalability and effectiveness of the proposed method for large networks.

【Keywords】privacy-preserving; self-sovereign identity; smart contract; social internet of things; Sybil attack; web of trust; zero-knowledge proof

【发表时间】2024 2024 AUG 4

【收录时间】2024-08-10

【文献类型】实验仿真

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区块链应用-虚拟经济-物联网