Zero Knowledge based Authentication for Internet of Medical Things

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as e-healthcare departments have grown tremendously where devices gather patient data and instantly transmit it over a distance to servers. Despite its huge advantages, IoT in the healthcare sector has acquired little consideration, largely because of the threats of unauthorized access to private health data made possible by the weak wireless communication channel. The economic complexity of the current security protocols makes them inappropriate, hence new security protocols must be developed for resource-constrained and diverse IoT networks. This work suggests an authenticated key agreement protocol for the Internet of medical things (IoMT) that is based on zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP). The research will include the comparison between computational delays in traditional protocols and ZKP protocol. This paper provides a protocol to obtain privacy of data in IoMT environment on the basis of zero knowledge phenomenon and anonymous communication by ZKP.