Internet of Things (IoT) is the collection of different types of smart objects like mobile phones, sensors, cars, smart cities, smart buildings, and healthcare, which can provide a quality life to humans around the globe. These smart objects sense and produce a huge amount of data for distribution. The current hostcentric networking paradigm is not that scalable to provide a suitable solution to the idea of IoT. For scalable connectivity and efficient distribution, Named Data Networking (NDN) has been envisioned as a promising solution for future internet architecture. On the other hand, the significant issues regarding the adaptation of NDN with IoT possess security concerns such as authentication, confidentiality, integrity, and forward secrecy. As IoT is a heterogeneous environment, it demands a different type of security, according to the environmental situation such as public key infrastructure (PKI), identity-based cryptosystem (IBC), and certificateless cryptosystem (CLC). This paper presents a new concept of CLC to IBC heterogeneous generalized signcryption for the first time to fulfil the prime security requirements of NDN-based IoT. The proposed scheme provides the security properties according to situational needs without disturbing the structural policy of NDN. Considering the resource-constrained nature of IoT, we used a lightweight type of elliptic curve called the hyperelliptic curve cryptosystem which offers the same level of security as that of bilinear pairing and an elliptic curve cryptosystem using a minimum key size. Further, we compare the proposed scheme with recently proposed identity-based as well as certificateless generalized signcryption schemes, and the results give satisfactory outputs in terms of computational and communication resources. Furthermore, we simulate the proposed scheme with Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications (AVISPA), and the results show that our scheme is valid and safe. Additionally, we provide a practical scenario of the proposed on NDN with an IoT-based smart city.

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用于启用命名数据网络的物联网的轻量级自然异构广义签密（HGSC）方案

物联网（IoT）是移动电话，传感器，汽车，智能城市，智能建筑和医疗保健等不同类型的智能对象的集合，可以为全球人类提供优质的生活。这些智能对象可以感知并产生大量数据以进行分发。当前的以主机为中心的网络范式无法扩展，无法为物联网概念提供合适的解决方案。为了实现可扩展的连接性和高效的分发，已将命名数据网络（NDN）视为未来互联网体系结构的有希望的解决方案。另一方面，与使用物联网的NDN适配有关的重大问题涉及安全性问题，例如身份验证，机密性，完整性和前向保密性。由于IoT是异构环境，因此需要不同类型的安全性，根据环境状况，例如公钥基础结构（PKI），基于身份的密码系统（IBC）和无证书密码系统（CLC）。本文首次提出了一种CLC到IBC异构广义签密的新概念，以满足基于NDN的物联网的主要安全要求。所提出的方案根据情况需要提供安全特性，而不会干扰NDN的结构策略。考虑到IoT的资源受限性质，我们使用了一种称为“超椭圆曲线密码系统”的轻型椭圆曲线类型，该系统提供与双线性配对和使用最小密钥大小的椭圆曲线密码系统相同级别的安全性。进一步，我们将提出的方案与最近提出的基于身份的方案以及无证书的广义签密方案进行了比较，结果在计算和通信资源方面给出了令人满意的输出。此外，我们使用Internet安全协议和应用程序的自动验证（AVISPA）对提出的方案进行了仿真，结果表明该方案是有效且安全的。此外，我们提供了基于IoT的智慧城市在NDN上提出的实际方案。