Internet of Things (IoT) devices are going to be a crucial data source in smart cities, often generating and communicating critical, sensitive, and private data that face threats of confidentiality breaches due to the rise of quantum computers. Even though NIST has approved post-quantum cryptography (PQC) schemes that promise to provide protection from quantum computer threats, these schemes can not be implemented efficiently on IoT devices, which often have computational and memory constraints. In this paper, we propose an offloading scheme that uses PQ Edge Server (PQES) for the network that performs PQC-related computation and memory operations for IoT devices in the network. The proposed scheme reduces the computational, memory, and network load for IoT devices by manifolds and increases device performance while providing PQC security.

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基于边缘计算的电子医疗后量子物联网安全方案


物联网 (IoT) 设备将成为智慧城市的重要数据源，通常会生成和传输关键、敏感和私人数据，这些数据由于量子计算机的兴起而面临机密泄露的威胁。尽管 NIST 已批准后量子密码 (PQC) 方案，承诺提供针对量子计算机威胁的保护，但这些方案无法在物联网设备上有效实施，因为物联网设备通常具有计算和内存限制。在本文中，我们提出了一种卸载方案，该方案在网络中使用 PQ 边缘服务器（PQES），为网络中的物联网设备执行 PQC 相关的计算和内存操作。所提出的方案成倍减少了物联网设备的计算、内存和网络负载，并提高了设备​​性能，同时提供了 PQC 安全性。