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Internet of Things (IoT) is a system that consists of a large number of smart devices connected through a network. The number of these devices is increasing rapidly, which creates a massive and complex network with a vast amount of data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Fatimah Aljaafari , Lucas C. Cordeiro , Mustafa A. Mustafa

The Internet of Things (IoT) has enabled a wide range of sectors to interact effectively with their consumers in order to deliver seamless services and products. Despite the widespread availability of (IoT) devices and their Internet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Ghassan Samara , Ruzayn Quaddoura , Mooad Imad Al-Shalout , AL-Qawasmi Khaled , Ghadeer Al Besani

With the rapid growth of new technological paradigms such as the Internet of Things (IoT), it opens new doors for many applications in the modern era for the betterment of human life. One of the recent applications of the IoT is the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Pintu Kumar Sadhu , Venkata P. Yanambaka , Saraju P. Mohanty , Elias Kougianos

Random numbers are an essential input to many functions on the Internet of Things (IoT). Common use cases of randomness range from low-level packet transmission to advanced algorithms of artificial intelligence as well as security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Peter Kietzmann , Thomas C. Schmidt , Matthias Wählisch

Identifying devices such as cameras, printers, voice assistants, or health monitoring sensors, collectively known as the Internet of Things (IoT), within a network is a critical operational task, particularly to manage the cyber risks they…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Shayan Azizi , Norihiro Okui , Masataka Nakahara , Ayumu Kubota , Hassan Habibi Gharakheili

Physical unclonable functions (PUFs), as hardware security primitives, exploit manufacturing randomness to extract hardware instance-specific secrets. One of most popular structures is time-delay based Arbiter PUF attributing to large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Yansong Gao , Said F. Al-Sarawi , Derek Abbott , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Damith C. Ranasinghe

This paper presents a framework for securing blockchain-based IoT systems by integrating Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) within a Hyperledger Fabric environment. The proposed framework leverages PUFs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Daniel Commey , Sena Hounsinou , Garth V. Crosby

A diverse set of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are becoming an integrated part of daily lives, and playing an increasingly vital role in various industry, enterprise and agricultural settings. The current IoT ecosystem relies on several…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Bhaskar Tejaswi , Mohammad Mannan , Amr Youssef

IoT devices fundamentally lack built-in security mechanisms to protect themselves from security attacks. Existing works on improving IoT security mostly focus on detecting anomalous behaviors of IoT devices. However, these existing anomaly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Md Mainuddin , Zhenhai Duan , Yingfei Dong

The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a significant advancement in digital technology, with its rapidly growing network of interconnected devices. This expansion, however, brings forth critical challenges in data security and reliability,…

IoT applications usually rely on cloud computing services to perform data analysis such as filtering, aggregation, classification, pattern detection, and prediction. When applied to specific domains, the IoT needs to deal with unique…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-09 Márcio Miguel Gomes , Rodrigo da Rosa Righi , Cristiano André da Costa , Dalvan Griebler

Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) provide a streamlined solution for lightweight device authentication. Delay-based Arbiter PUFs, with their ease of implementation and vast challenge space, have received significant attention; however,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Hongming Fei , Owen Millwood , Prosanta Gope , Jack Miskelly , Biplab Sikdar

IoT repackaging refers to an attack devoted to tampering with a legitimate firmware package by modifying its content (e.g., injecting some malicious code) and re-distributing it in the wild. In such a scenario, the firmware delivery and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Luca Verderame , Antonio Ruggia , Alessio Merlo

Internet of Things (IoT) is ubiquitous because of its broad applications and the advance in communication technologies. The capabilities of IoT also enable its important role in homeland security and tactical missions, including…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Xi Hang Cao , Xiaojiang Du , E. Paul Ratazzi

Firmware updates remain the primary line of defense for IoT devices; however, the update channel itself has become a well-established attack vector. Existing defenses mainly focus on securing monolithic firmware images, leaving module-level…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Weihao Chen , Yansong Gao , Boyu Kuang , Jin B. Hong , Yuqing Zhang , Anmin Fu

Device fingerprinting can be used by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to identify vulnerable IoT devices for early prevention of threats. However, due to the wide deployment of middleboxes in ISP networks, some important data, e.g.,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ruoyu Li , Qing Li , Tao Lin , Qingsong Zou , Dan Zhao , Yucheng Huang , Gareth Tyson , Guorui Xie , Yong Jiang

Counterfeit products pose significant risks to public health and safety through infiltrating untrusted supply chains. Among numerous anti-counterfeiting techniques, leveraging inherent, unclonable microscopic irregularities of paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Anirudh Nakra , Nayeeb Rashid , Chau-Wai Wong , Min Wu

Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) are vital components in modern electrical substations, collectively responsible for monitoring electrical parameters and performing protective functions. As a result, ensuring the integrity of IEDs is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Vishal D. Jadhav , Narahari N. Moudhgalya , Tapabrata Sen , T. V. Prabhakar

Embedded, smart, and IoT devices are increasingly popular in numerous everyday settings. Since lower-end devices have the most strict cost constraints, they tend to have few, if any, security features. This makes them attractive targets for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Sashidhar Jakkamsetti , Youngil Kim , Andrew Searles , Gene Tsudik

Security in the Internet of Things (IoT) requires ways to regularly update firmware in the field. These demands ever increase with new, agile concepts such as security as code and should be considered a regular operation. Hosting massive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Cenk Gündoğan , Christian Amsüss , Thomas C. Schmidt , Matthias Wählisch