Routis, G.; Dagas, P.; Roussaki, I. Enhancing Privacy in the Internet of Vehicles via Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography. Electronics2024, 13, 730.
Routis, G.; Dagas, P.; Roussaki, I. Enhancing Privacy in the Internet of Vehicles via Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography. Electronics 2024, 13, 730.
Routis, G.; Dagas, P.; Roussaki, I. Enhancing Privacy in the Internet of Vehicles via Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography. Electronics2024, 13, 730.
Routis, G.; Dagas, P.; Roussaki, I. Enhancing Privacy in the Internet of Vehicles via Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography. Electronics 2024, 13, 730.
Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a technological paradigm that has gained significant momentum that last decade and, among others, enables the development of intelligent and interoperable device networks. In this respect, it has triggered the creation and evolution of VANETs (Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks), which are initially implemented in order to guarantee the safety of the drivers and the avoidance of traffic accidents. The drawback is that this fast evolution flags serious concerns as far as the privacy of users is concerned, while the population of attackers or entities that try to eavesdrop and intercept information has significantly increased. This imposes a serious risk for drivers moving across a Smart City. The research presented in this paper aims to evaluate privacy protection mechanisms in VANET environments, based on their efficiency and security level ensured, considering the fact that VANETs provide limited resources to users/drivers. Moreover, the usage of the elliptic curve cryptography in reduced resources environments is discussed. Finally, this paper compares the performance of three cryptographic algorithms, i.e., Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography genus 2 (HECC-2) and HECC genus 3 (HECC-3), employed for an efficient authentication and safe message transmission mechanism in VANETs, targeting to extract conclusions related to the implementation of each cryptographic scheme in this specific application area.
Keywords
Internet of Things (IoT); Internet of Vehicles (IoV); Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs); vehicle privacy; digital certificates; digital signatures; ECC; HECC; energy consumption; message size; Arduino; Zigbee
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Security Systems
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