An Efficient Lightweight Privacy-Preserving Mechanism for Industry 4.0 Based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography

The present trend of automation anddata interchange in industrial technology is known as Industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 is altering its next generation of distribution networks by making them more responsive and efficient. There are various issues when implementing Internet of Thing (IoT) devices in an Industry 4.0 scenario, mainly due to reduced IoT nodes or devices with insufficient infrastructure to operate security solutions. As a result, securing the environment will require a lightweight and effective security solution. The authors of this study offer a lightweight and flexible authentication method as part of an access control strategy for secure data exchange in-vehicle networks. Lightweight operations, hash functions, XOR operations, and concatenation are all used in the proposed protocol. The security of this approach is also evaluated using AVISPA. The authentication process between IoT networks and resilience to various security threats will be demonstrated. The experimental analysis shows that the computational cost attained is 7.96 s, and the communication cost attained is 834 bits. Similarly, the resource utilization for this computation is 11%, and the average verification time is 7 ms. The experimental analysis demonstrates that the proposed method is efficient with lower computational cost, communication costs, verification cost, and resource utilization than the existing state-of-the-art approaches