Anonymous communication system provides a secure environment without leaking metadata, which has many application scenarios in IoT

TL;DR

This paper introduces a quantum-safe, hierarchical anonymous encryption scheme suitable for IoT, ensuring data privacy and traceability while resisting quantum attacks, with proven security under standard assumptions.

Contribution

We propose a novel quantum-safe hierarchical anonymous encryption scheme with traceable identities, enhancing IoT data security with formal security proofs.

Findings

Scheme is quantum-safe under LWE assumption

Provides fully anonymous ciphertexts for IoT applications

Security is proven in the standard model

Abstract

Anonymous Identity Based Encryption (AIBET) scheme allows a tracer to use the tracing key to reveal the recipient's identity from the ciphertext while keeping other data anonymous. This special feature makes AIBET a promising solution to distributed IoT data security. In this paper, we construct an efficient quantum-safe Hierarchical Identity-Based cryptosystem with Traceable Identities (AHIBET) with fully anonymous ciphertexts. We prove the security of the AHIBET scheme under the Learning with Errors (LWE) problem in the standard model.