Need for Speed: Leveraging the Power of Functional Encryption for Resource-Constrained Devices

Eugene Frimpong, Alexandros Bakas, Camille Foucault, Antonis Michalas

2024

Abstract

Functional Encryption (FE) is a cutting-edge cryptographic technique that enables a user with a specific functional decryption key to determine a certain function of encrypted data without gaining access to the underlying data. Given its potential and the fact that FE is still a relatively new field, we set out to investigate how it could be applied to resource-constrained environments. This work presents what we believe to be the first lightweight FE scheme explicitly designed for resource-constrained devices. We also propose a use case protocol that demonstrates how our scheme can secure an Internet of Things (IoT) architecture where relevant devices collect data and securely deliver them to a storage server, where an analyst can request access to the encrypted data. Finally, we conduct thorough experiments on two commercially available resource-constrained devices to provide compelling evidence of our approach’s practicality and efficiency. Although the results of our evaluations show that there is room for improvement in the proposed scheme, this work represents one of the first attempts to apply FE to the IoT setting that can directly impact people’s daily lives and the everyday operations of organizations.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Frimpong E., Bakas A., Foucault C. and Michalas A. (2024). Need for Speed: Leveraging the Power of Functional Encryption for Resource-Constrained Devices. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS; ISBN 978-989-758-699-6, SciTePress, pages 62-74. DOI: 10.5220/0012626200003705

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iotbds24,
author={Eugene Frimpong and Alexandros Bakas and Camille Foucault and Antonis Michalas},
title={Need for Speed: Leveraging the Power of Functional Encryption for Resource-Constrained Devices},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS},
year={2024},
pages={62-74},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012626200003705},
isbn={978-989-758-699-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security - Volume 1: IoTBDS
TI - Need for Speed: Leveraging the Power of Functional Encryption for Resource-Constrained Devices
SN - 978-989-758-699-6
AU - Frimpong E.
AU - Bakas A.
AU - Foucault C.
AU - Michalas A.
PY - 2024
SP - 62
EP - 74
DO - 10.5220/0012626200003705
PB - SciTePress