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IoT Notary: Sensor Data Attestation in Smart Environment

Cryptography and Security 2019-08-28 v1 Databases Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Information Retrieval

Abstract

Contemporary IoT environments, such as smart buildings, require end-users to trust data-capturing rules published by the systems. There are several reasons why such a trust is misplaced --- IoT systems may violate the rules deliberately or IoT devices may transfer user data to a malicious third-party due to cyberattacks, leading to the loss of individuals' privacy or service integrity. To address such concerns, we propose IoT Notary, a framework to ensure trust in IoT systems and applications. IoT Notary provides secure log sealing on live sensor data to produce a verifiable `proof-of-integrity,' based on which a verifier can attest that captured sensor data adheres to the published data-capturing rules. IoT Notary is an integral part of TIPPERS, a smart space system that has been deployed at UCI to provide various real-time location-based services in the campus. IoT Notary imposes nominal overheads for verification, thereby users can verify their data of one day in less than two seconds.

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@article{arxiv.1908.10033,
  title  = {IoT Notary: Sensor Data Attestation in Smart Environment},
  author = {Nisha Panwar and Shantanu Sharma and Guoxi Wang and Sharad Mehrotra and Nalini Venkatasubramanian and Mamadou H. Diallo and Ardalan Amiri Sani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.10033},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Accepted in IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), 2019

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