Anonymous Message Authentication Scheme for Semitrusted Edge-Enabled IIoT

As internet of things and other technologies are widely used in industrial manufacturing, automation and intelligence have witnessed rapid developments, resulting in the proposal of the industrial internet of things (IIoT). However, the IIoT still faces various network security threats; hence, data integrity, confidentiality, and anonymity need to be ensured. The use of cloud and edge servers as semitrusted third parties often results in the leaking of privacy sensitive user data. Meanwhile, existing security schemes treat the cloud and edge as fully trusted entities, which is not always valid. Considering edge servers as semitrusted entities, we propose a novel message authentication scheme that leverages group signature technology and proxy reencryption technology to ensure data integrity, confidentiality, and anonymity. Through theoretical analysis and performance comparison, we prove the security of our scheme. In addition, we implement our scheme on a real publish/subscribe system, and the experimental results show the feasibility of our scheme.