A novel privacy protection scheme for internet of things based on blockchain and privacy set intersection technique

Abstract

Abstract In the era of big data, an ocean of data generated by Internet of Things (IoT) devices will be analyzed and processed by cloud computing. However, outsourcing of data can lead to leakage of user privacy to those unreliable service providers. In this paper, we propose a novel privacy-preserving scheme for IoT device by employing privacy set intersection (PSI) and blockchain technique to achieve data privacy. First, a homomorphic encryption PSI technique based on 0-1 encoding is proposed, which well hides the set base to ensure data privacy. Second, combining blockchain structure and smart contract, the proposed scheme can improve the efficiency of data sharing by storing the shared data on a blockchain. Third, the security analysis shows that the scheme has extremely high control over the individual data and can ensure the security and privacy of the data. Finally, we compare the functionality with other relevant schemes and demonstrate that our scheme functions well with low communication and computational overhead.

Keywords

• Privacy
• PSI
• Blockchain
• Smart contracts
• Internet of Things
• Homomorphic encryption