A Fully Auditable Data Propagation Scheme With Dynamic Vehicle Management for EC-ITS

Access control and authenticity are two critical concerns of the encrypted propagating data in edge computing-assisted intelligent transportation systems (EC-ITS). This paper presents a fully traceable and verifiable ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption scheme with auditable outsourced decryption and dynamic identity revocation (FTV-AOD-DR-CP-ABE) for EC-ITS as a confidential and fine-grained data sharing and acquiring module. The proposed FTV-AOD-DR-CP-ABE is computing-efficient that all the algorithms executed by vehicles including
$\mathbf {Enc}$
,
$\mathbf {OutKeyGen}$
and
$\mathbf {FinalDec}$
are constant complexity. In addition, an efficient identity-based signature and message commitment (IBSMC) algorithm is constructed for the ciphertext and message in our FTV-AOD-DR-CP-ABE to provide both of them with traceable authenticity and verifiability. An outsourced key auditing algorithm
$\mathbf {TKAudit}$
is also innovated for RSU to audit the legality and freshness of outsourced key
$\mathsf {TK}$
, which can protect the propagating data system against the flooding and DDoS attack with the illegal outsourced keys. Based on the traceability of the ciphertext and outsourced key, a dynamic vehicle revocation mechanism is designed in our scheme. Next the rigorous proofs of the data confidentiality, ciphertext and message traceable verifiability,
$\mathsf {TK}$
auditability and revocable security are given in random oracle model (ROM). Finally, by comprehensive comparison and evaluation of the proposed FTV-AOD-DR-CP-ABE with other state-of-the-art data propagating schemes, our FTV-AOD-DR-CP-ABE is more comprehensive.