Heterogeneous Parallel Key-Insulated Multi-Receiver Signcryption Scheme for IoV

The rapid growth of electric vehicle and autonomous vehicle populations has led to explosive expansion of IoV data being transmitted in the wireless communication infrastructure. Advances in IoV technologies also resulted in more complex and dynamic communication protocols/patterns, which are hard for the underlying wireless network to satisfy. Besides, security considerations of IoV communications require that key management must be stringently prohibit global failure mode of key management, meaning that, if a single IoV node compromises its private key, it will not lead to total security failure of the entire IoV network. To address these issues, in this paper, we propose a heterogeneous parallel key-insulated multi-receiver signcryption scheme for IoV (HPKI-MRSC). Firstly, the proposed scheme can realize one-to-many heterogeneous transmission, in which RSUs are deployed on certificateless cryptography (CLC) system, while vehicles are allocated in identity-based cryptography (IBC) system. In this manner, we observe that message transmission efficiency is improved greatly. Secondly, the parallel key-insulated mechanism can employ two helper keys to update private key periodically, and then solve key disclosure problem. Finally, when the number of receiver n is greater than or equal to 3, the proposed scheme has a lower signcryption overhead than other comparative schemes, and thus it is more suitable for IoV.