An Efficient and Secure Data Sharing Scheme for Edge-Enabled IoT

Sharing the big data generated by IoT via cloud is slow and expensive. Besides, transmitting and sharing data among IoT devices via cloud may be insecure. To address these issues, a novel efficient and secure data sharing scheme termed EB-SDSS (Edge Blockchain Secure Data Sharing Scheme) is proposed in this paper for edge-enabled IoT applications. EB-SDSS constructs a blockchain on edge servers. It guarantees the confidentiality and unforgeability of data by combining the symmetric encryption scheme with an edge blockchain. To ensure the device authenticity and the reliability of shared data, EB-SDSS adopts a certificateless signature scheme. It also provides efficient large-scale data searches for IoT devices through a locality-sensitive hashing algorithm. EB-SDSS has been proven to be secure against the adaptive chosen message attacks under the random oracle model. The experimental results indicate that EB-SDSS is feasible for IoT inter-device data sharing.