Based on Linkable Ring Signature Map Review Scheme for Zero-Trust Autonomous Vehicles

The real-time map plays a vital role in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) navigation. Compared with the existing map review, the real-time map review method is based on crowdsensing enabling faster data updates and shortening the map period from map collection to service. However, the crowdsensing method requires frequent interaction between the vehicle and nearby devices or servers, increasing the risk of user privacy leakage. How to ensure the privacy of users is a challenge in the real-time map review. Starting from the typical architecture of IoV and combining the core idea of zero-trust “never trust, continuous verification”, IoV-ZT conceptual model architecture is designed. This paper proposes a based on linkable ring signature map review scheme for zero-trust autonomous vehicles (LRSMR). In the LRSMR, a linkable ring signature based on the SM2 digital signature algorithm is used to protect user identity privacy and ensures while ensuring signature linkability by hiding the identity of the actual signer in the ring. Through the requirement for user credit, the reliability of the review data is improved. At the same time, the distribution of rewards increases users' motivation. At last, the security analysis indicates that the LRSMR satisfies correctness, unforgeability, unconditional anonymity, linkability and nonslanderability. The simulation results illustrate that the LRSMR is efficient in terms of communication overhead and computation cost.