Towards a Compressive-Sensing-Based Lightweight Encryption Scheme for the Internet of Things

Internet of Things (IoT) is flourishing and has penetrated deeply into people's daily life. With the seamless connection to the physical world, IoT provides tremendous opportunities to a wide range of applications. However, potential risks exist when the IoT system collects sensor data and uploads it to the Cloud. The leakage of private data can be severe with curious database administrator or malicious hackers who compromise the Cloud. In this work, we propose Kryptein, a compressive-sensing-based lightweight encryption scheme for Cloud-enabled IoT systems to secure the interaction between the IoT devices and the Cloud. Kryptein supports random compressed encryption, statistical computation over cipher, and accurate raw data decryption. According to our evaluation based on two real datasets, Kryptein provides strong protection to the data. It is 250 times faster than other state-of-the-art systems and incurs 120 times less energy consumption. The performance of Kryptein is also measured on off-the-shelf IoT devices, and the result shows Kryptein can run efficiently on IoT devices. After comparing with other state-of-the-art lightweight ciphers on IoT (Simon and Speck), IoT system with Kryptein is expected to have a much more longevity with about 35 percent extended lifetime. Further, experiments illustrated IoT data variance will not affect Kryptein's accuracy in a long term usage, and Krpytein is also able to support basic analytics tasks like machine learning (e.g., classification).

Automated summary

The Internet of Things (IoT) has penetrated deeply into daily life, providing tremendous opportunities but also potential risks. Kryptein is a lightweight encryption scheme proposed for securing the interaction between IoT devices and the Cloud, supporting compressed encryption, statistical computation, and accurate data decryption to provide strong protection.