Integration of Hardware Security Modules and Permissioned Blockchain in Industrial IoT Networks

Autor: Antonio J. Cabrera-Gutierrez, Encarnacion Castillo, Antonio Escobar-Molero, Jose A. Alvarez-Bermejo, Diego P. Morales, Luis Parrilla
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: IEEE Access, Vol 10, Pp 114331-114345 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3217815
Popis: Hardware Security Modules (HSM) serve as a hardware based root of trust that offers physical protection while adding a new security layer in the system architecture. When combined with decentralized access technologies as Blockchain, HSM offers robustness and complete reliability enabling secured end-to-end mechanisms for authenticity, authorization and integrity. This work proposes an efficient integration of HSM and Blockchain technologies focusing on, mainly, public-key cryptography algorithms and standards, that result crucial in order to achieve a successful combination of the mentioned technologies to improve the overall security in Industrial IoT systems. To prove the suitability of the proposal and the interaction of an IoT node and a Blockchain network using HSM a proof of concept is developed. Results of time performance analysis of the prototype reveal how promising the combination of HSMs in Blockchain environments is.
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