Abstract:

To ensure the security of Internet of Things (IoT) communications, one can use deep packet inspection (DPI) on network middleboxes to detect and mitigate anomalies and suspicious activities in network traffic of IoT, although doing so over encrypted traffic is challenging. Therefore, in this paper, an efficient and privacy-preserving encrypted traffic detection scheme is proposed. The scheme uses only lightweight cryptographic operations (i.e., symmetric encryption, hash functions and pseudo-random functions) to achieve both privacy and security within an inspection round. A dispute resolution mechanism is also designed to address potential disputes between client(s) and server(s). We also present the corresponding security proof and experimental evaluation, which demonstrate that our proposed scheme achieves strong security and privacy preservation and good performance.

Bibtex

@ARTICLE{9723011,
  author={Chen, Dajiang and Wang, Hao and Zhang, Ning and Nie, Xuyun and Dai, Hong-Ning and Zhang, Kuan and Choo, Kwang Raymond},
  journal={IEEE Internet of Things Journal}, 
  title={Privacy-Preserving Encrypted Traffic Inspection with Symmetric Cryptographic Techniques in IoT}, 
  year={2022},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={1-1},
  doi={10.1109/JIOT.2022.3155355}
}