A Lightweight Anonymous Authentication and Secure Communication Scheme for Fog Computing Services

Fog-driven IoT architecture located between devices and the centralized cloud infrastructure is introduced to extend computing, storage network services edge of Internet therefore resources fog nodes are available closer end user device for providing mobility, low latency location awareness. However, paradigm computing due its inherited properties from as inherits security privacy concerns such spoofing, message replay, impersonation, man-in-the middle physical capturing etc. To address these in services, this paper, a lightweight anonymous authentication secure communication scheme proposed it only used one-way hash function bitwise XOR operations when cloud, mutually authenticate each other. After successful authentication, both fog-based participants can agree on session key encrypt subsequent messages. The be ensured during process by using Burrows-Abadi-Needham (BAN) logic performance comparisons with existing schemes demonstrate that highly efficient.