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Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the sizzling technology that connects everything to everyone, everywhere. Security and privacy with confidentiality, integrity, and availability to data are among the most pressing challenge faced by IoT as well as the Internet. Networks are getting more expanded and are becoming more open, and security practices has to be uplifted to ensure protection of this rapidly growing Internet, its users, and data. In this paper, we propose a new authentication and access control mechanism for the IoT devices through a blazing blockchain technology, Hyperledger Fabric, an open-source distributed ledger platform for developing enterprise-grade permissioned blockchains. Blockchain is typically a hash-chain of blocks consisting of a number of (ordered) transactions. Fabric provides a secure and scalable permissioned platform with plug-in components that support data privacy and smartcontracts, rather than a permission-less system where anybody can access and transact data. The authentication and access control of the IoT devices is achieved by making use of newly introduced features in managing channel, chaincodes, policies, Certificate Authority (CA), and others in Hyperledger Fabric version 2.0. Our architecture has the potential to act upon different layers of the IoT in authentication and access control safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data.
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Kurian, B., Subramanian, N. (2021). IoT Device Authentication and Access Control Through Hyperledger Fabric. In: Thampi, S.M., Gelenbe, E., Atiquzzaman, M., Chaudhary, V., Li, KC. (eds) Advances in Computing and Network Communications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 735. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6977-1_51
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