Kryptein: A Compressive-Sensing-Based Encryption Scheme for the Internet of Things

Internet of Things (IoT) is flourishing and has penetrated deeply into people's daily life. With the seamless connection to the physical world, IoT provides tremendous opportunities to a wide range of applications. However, potential risks exist when the IoT system collects sensor data and uploads it to the cloud. The leakage of private data can be severe with curious database administrator or malicious hackers who compromise the cloud. In this work, we propose Kryptein, a compressive-sensing-based encryption scheme for cloud-enabled IoT systems to secure the interaction between the IoT devices and the cloud. Kryptein supports random compressed encryption, statistical decryption, and accurate raw data decryption. According to our evaluation based on two real datasets, Kryptein provides strong protection to the data. It is 250 times faster than other state-of-the-art systems and incurs 120 times less energy consumption. The performance of Kryptein is also measured on off-the-shelf IoT devices, and the result shows Kryptein can run efficiently on IoT devices.