FairAccess: a new Blockchain-based access control framework for the Internet of Things
FairAccess: a new Blockchain-based access control framework for the Internet of Things
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10.1002/sec.1748
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2016-12-01
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Ouahman, Abdellah Ait
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Ouaddah, Aafaf;Abou Elkalam, Anas;Ouahman, Abdellah Ait
Security and privacy are huge challenges in Internet of Things (IoT) environments, but unfortunately, the harmonization of the IoT-related standards and protocols is hardly and slowly widespread. In this paper, we propose a new framework for access control in IoT based on the blockchain technology. Our first contribution consists in providing a reference model for our proposed framework within the Objectives, Models, Architecture and Mechanism specification in IoT. In addition, we introduce FairAccess as a fully decentralized pseudonymous and privacy preserving authorization management framework that enables users to own and control their data. To implement our model, we use and adapt the blockchain into a decentralized access control manager. Unlike financial bitcoin transactions, FairAccess introduces new types of transactions that are used to grant, get, delegate, and revoke access. As a proof of concept, we establish an initial implementation with a Raspberry PI device and local blockchain. Finally, we discuss some limitations and propose further opportunities. (C) 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.