| Title | BARS: A Blockchain-Based Anonymous Reputation System for Trust Management in VANETs |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2018 |
| Authors | Lu, Zhaojun, Wang, Qian, Qu, Gang, Liu, Zhenglin |
| Conference Name | 2018 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications/ 12th IEEE International Conference On Big Data Science And Engineering (TrustCom/BigDataSE) |
| Date Published | aug |
| Keywords | authentication protocol, Bars, blockchain, blockchain-based anonymous reputation system, cryptographic protocols, Data models, data privacy, distributed trust management, forged message broadcasting, Human Behavior, internal vehicles, message authentication, Metrics, PKI Trust Models, privacy, privacy preservation, privacy protection, pubcrawl, Public key, public key cryptography, public key infrastructure, reputation system, Resiliency, revocation transparency, Scalability, security services, telecommunication security, Trust management, VANET, vehicular ad hoc networks, vehicular ad-hoc networks |
| Abstract | The public key infrastructure (PKI) based authentication protocol provides the basic security services for vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs). However, trust and privacy are still open issues due to the unique characteristics of vehicles. It is crucial for VANETs to prevent internal vehicles from broadcasting forged messages while simultaneously protecting the privacy of each vehicle against tracking attacks. In this paper, we propose a blockchain-based anonymous reputation system (BARS) to break the linkability between real identities and public keys to preserve privacy. The certificate and revocation transparency is implemented efficiently using two blockchains. We design a trust model to improve the trustworthiness of messages relying on the reputation of the sender based on both direct historical interactions and indirect opinions about the sender. Experiments are conducted to evaluate BARS in terms of security and performance and the results show that BARS is able to establish distributed trust management, while protecting the privacy of vehicles. |
| DOI | 10.1109/TrustCom/BigDataSE.2018.00025 |
| Citation Key | lu_bars:_2018 |
BARS: A Blockchain-Based Anonymous Reputation System for Trust Management in VANETs