Novel security Architectures and Methods for Internet of Things

When the DARPA of the USA first funded the ARPNET in 1960s, no one could foresee that nowadays over 2 billion people (over 30% of world population) are connecting to the Internet. According to Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), currently new IPv4 address is unavailable to be allocated; we are now switching from the old IPv4 to IPv6, the new Internet address protocol. In the Internet of Things (IoT) era, each person will carry multiple devices that require multiple IP addresses for connecting to the Internet. For instance, your refrigerator or even a toaster at home will need an IP address, such that a smart environment can be facilitated for future families. A parent can remotely access a smart home grid and pre-program a toaster to start at a later time and temperature. However, if a hacker broke into the smart home grid, and overloaded the toaster or even produced unwanted power shortage to the family, this could potentially cause a major inconvenience or even endanger everyone in the family. Thus, the use of IoT poses new security challenges for the research communities and governance authorities to enable a vibrant and vital global community.This proposal aims to carry algorithmic complexity analysis and efficient hardware / software designs for public-key cryptography targeting IoT devices. These can foster an innovative and trusted Internet for people worldwide. The uses of our novel techniques on Montgomery multiplier using residue number systems (RNS) and spectral arithmetic are attractive and will be explored for IoT devices. We will develop both the software and hardware models which will then be plugged into the proposed IoT security specification. Next, we will perform the run-time side-channel analysis on the designed components. The corresponding countermeasures will also be introduced with the techniques described in this project. By achieving the objectives described in this proposal, it is expected that a resilient and secure IoT will become more favorable to everyone.