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BLISS: blockchain-based integrated security system for internet of things (IoT) applications

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Cybersecurity is an essential part of IoT device functionality. Malicious acts cause the disclosure of private data, putting device performance at risk. As a result, creating efficient security solutions for authentication and confidentiality of both IoT devices and data exchange and integrity of data exchange networks has become a significant challenge. Furthermore, the traditional security mechanisms’ high computation demands are not suitable for resource-constrained specific IoT devices. Therefore, we have proposed a security system for IoT applications using blockchain called BLISS, which ensures robust identification, authentication, confidentiality, and integrity of IoT devices and data exchange. Using smart contracts, the BLISS creates trustful clusters of IoT devices through an authentication process for data exchange. The BLISS is implemented on the Raspberry Pi 4 and the desktop PC, considering the Raspberry Pi 4 as an IoT device and the desktop as a cluster head. The performance analysis of the BLISS demonstrates the enhanced performance in the context of computation and energy consumption, which is 62–65% reduced. The storage and communication overhead is reduced by up to 70% compared with state-of-the-art schemes. The security analysis showed that the proposed scheme withstands many IoT-specific cyber threads.

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Vishwakarma, L., Das, D. BLISS: blockchain-based integrated security system for internet of things (IoT) applications. Int. J. Inf. Secur. 23, 1649–1665 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-023-00808-6

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