Chain Veri: Blockchain-Based Firmware Verification System for IoT Environment

Jea Min Lim, Youngpil Kim, Chuck Yoo

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    10 Citations (Scopus)

    Abstract

    The number of deployed Internet of Things (IoT) devices has been increasing rapidly, and security has become significantly important in IoT environments. However, security issues remain challenging due to constraints of IoT devices. One critical security issue is that attacks tamper the firmware of IoT devices. Once the firmware is tampered, it is difficult to notice and recover the tampered firmware. For the integrity of firmware, this paper proposes a new blockchain-based firmware verification system, called Chain Veri. We overcome vulnerabilities of previous studies such as fudging firmware verification. Furthermore, unlike previous studies that presented only the concepts and ideas, we implement Chain Veri from scratch and carry out performance evaluation on storage consumption and CPU cycles to run Chain Veri on IoT device. Our results show that only 1.2MB of storage is used to verify 2,845 devices. Also, 1,692 CPU cycles are to generate a palette in ChainVeri.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE 2018 International Congress on Cybermatics
    Subtitle of host publication2018 IEEE Conferences on Internet of Things, Green Computing and Communications, Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, Smart Data, Blockchain, Computer and Information Technology, iThings/GreenCom/CPSCom/SmartData/Blockchain/CIT 2018
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    Pages1050-1056
    Number of pages7
    ISBN (Electronic)9781538679753
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2018 Jul
    Event11th IEEE International Congress on Conferences on Internet of Things, 14th IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications, 11th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, 4th IEEE International Conference on Smart Data, 1st IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and 18th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, iThings/GreenCom/CPSCom/SmartData/Blockchain/CIT 2018 - Halifax, Canada
    Duration: 2018 Jul 302018 Aug 3

    Publication series

    NameProceedings - IEEE 2018 International Congress on Cybermatics: 2018 IEEE Conferences on Internet of Things, Green Computing and Communications, Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, Smart Data, Blockchain, Computer and Information Technology, iThings/GreenCom/CPSCom/SmartData/Blockchain/CIT 2018

    Conference

    Conference11th IEEE International Congress on Conferences on Internet of Things, 14th IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications, 11th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, 4th IEEE International Conference on Smart Data, 1st IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and 18th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, iThings/GreenCom/CPSCom/SmartData/Blockchain/CIT 2018
    Country/TerritoryCanada
    CityHalifax
    Period18/7/3018/8/3

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was supported by Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion (IITP) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT) (No.2015-0-00288, Research of Network Virtualization Platform and Service for SDN 2.0 Realization). This research was also supported by the MSIT(Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, under the SW Starlab support program(2015-0-00280) supervised by the IITP.

    Keywords

    • Internet of Things
    • IoT
    • biockchain
    • firmware verification

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Computer Networks and Communications
    • Computer Science Applications
    • Hardware and Architecture
    • Information Systems and Management
    • Health Informatics
    • Communication

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