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The Internet of Things (IoT) connects increasing number of smart devices, which makes the central authorities or third parties (e.g., cloud, fog, firewall, etc.) based authentication scheme very challenging. In recent, the blockchain shows great promises in IoT to provide secure and flexible authentication schemes. In this work, a blockchain enabled authentication scheme is proposed for IoT devices, which ensures a more secure and easily interoperable alternative to IoT systems. It makes it possible to switch smart devices from an untrust to a trusted data using blockchain.
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Zhao, S., Li, S., Li, F., Zhang, W., Iqbal, M. (2021). Blockchain-Enabled User Authentication in Zero Trust Internet of Things. In: Wang, D., Meng, W., Han, J. (eds) Security and Privacy in New Computing Environments. SPNCE 2020. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 344. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66922-5_18
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