A lightweight zero-trust authentication architecture for IoT via unified enhanced FAST-SM9 and dynamic re-authentication
Zhanfei Ma, Hui Wei, Jing Jiang, Bisheng Wang, Hefei Wang, Zhong Di

TL;DR
This paper introduces a secure and efficient authentication system for IoT devices using a zero-trust approach and optimized algorithms.
Contribution
A lightweight zero-trust authentication framework combining enhanced FAST-SM9 and dynamic re-authentication for IoT.
Findings
The proposed framework reduces communication rounds by 40% and latency by 56.6%.
It achieves energy savings of 63% compared to traditional PKI methods.
AVISPA verification confirms the system's security and scalability in IoT environments.
Abstract
Authentication is a crucial challenge for Internet of Things (IoT) security, especially in open, distributed and resource-constrained environments. Current methods have significant shortcomings in terms of efficiency, adaptability, and ability to cope with complicated security threats. Therefore, this paper proposes a lightweight authentication framework for Cloud-Edge-End, which integrates the enhanced Fast Authentication and Signature Trust for SM9 (FAST-SM9) algorithm and zero-trust Dynamic Re-authentication (zero-trust-DRA) mechanism. First, FAST-SM9 effectively reduces protocol overhead, and meanwhile ensuring security by organically integrating authentication and signature processes. Its architectural optimization reduces the number of communication rounds by 40% and simplifies trust negotiation between heterogeneous layers without affecting the integrity of encryption mechanisms.…
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Taxonomy
TopicsUser Authentication and Security Systems · Advanced Malware Detection Techniques · IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
