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A Practical and UC-Secure Decentralized Key Management and Authentication Scheme Based on Blockchain for VNDN

Xian Guo¹, Sarah Almadhehagi¹, Tao Feng¹, Di Zhang¹, Yongbo Jiang¹ and Junli Fang¹

1. School of Computer and Communication, Lanzhou University of Technology
   730050 Lanzhou, China
   {Xian Guo}iamxg@163.com

Abstract

In Vehicular Named Data Networking (VNDN), most of the existing key management mechanisms still rely on the hierarchical key trust model or the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), in which the centralized certificate authority is used as a Trusted Third Party (TTP) to provide a signature for the user’s public key. Thus, the TTP becomes vulnerable to attacks and maybe there exists a singlepoint failure problem. In addition, the in-network caching in the VNDN may incur a threat to the system and make it is vulnerable to the DoS attack caused by Interest flooding aimed at the Content-Store. To tackle these security issues, we firstly propose an efficient decentralized key management solution based on blockchain for VNDN. Secondly, based on the proposed key management scheme, a lightweight mutual authentication scheme and a key agreement protocol for V2X are respectively proposed in this paper. Finally, we analyze the security attributes of our solutions in the Universally Composable (UC) framework. Our analysis results show that our novel schemes can meet the security requirements of our solutions. In addition, our experimental results show our new schemes have highly efficient, lower computation and communication costs than other related schemes.

Key words

Vehicular Named Data Networking (VNDN), Key management, Blockchain, Authentication, Key agreement, Universally composable (UC)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS230328013G

Publication information

Volume 21, Issue 3 (June 2024)
Year of Publication: 2024
ISSN: 2406-1018 (Online)
Publisher: ComSIS Consortium

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Guo, X., Almadhehagi, S., Feng, T., Zhang, D., Jiang, Y., Fang, J.: A Practical and UC-Secure Decentralized Key Management and Authentication Scheme Based on Blockchain for VNDN. Computer Science and Information Systems, Vol. 21, No. 3, 725-757. (2024), https://doi.org/10.2298/CSIS230328013G