ATM Vehicle Location Privacy and Security using End-to-End Quantum Key Cryptosystems

Internet-of-things (IoT) is the latest revolution in electronic industry after internet. Smart appliances, portable computing devices, mobile phones and handheld system dominate in IoT, because large portions of world population use it. UG applications, mainly financial, e-commerce, information security and sensitive data-communication need special attention in terms of security. Device authentication, encryption, and key distribution are of vital importance to any Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems, such as the new smart city infrastructures. This is due to the concern that attackers could easily exploit the lack of strong security in IoT devices to gain unauthorized access to the system or to hijack IoT devices to perform denial-of-service attacks on other networks. This creates a strong requirement for providing security solutions into these devices. However, although scholars have designed a variety of authentication protocols for IoT environment, the resource costs of these protocols and security impact are still expensive for resource-constrained devices. In this project, we propose a novel lightweight IoT device authentication, encryption, and key distribution approach using Quantum Key Cryptosystems. The Quantum Key Cryptosystems adopt three types of end-to-end encryption schemes: Asymmetric, Device-key, and without keys. The experimental results demonstrate the potential of this novel approach as a promising security and privacy solution for the next-generation of IoT systems.