A Framework for Trustworthy Internet of Things

Security is one of the major challenges in the Internet of Things (IoT). Although various security-related works have been done for IoT, existing works were only based on the classic network security-aspect. For instance, “Cryptography alone cannot solve protecting information in IoT problem as internally compromised nodes can generate bogus information and still authenticate it using valid cryptographic” (Lize, Jingpei, & Bin, 2014). Further, the centralized solutions are not feasible for IoT since fundamentally, IoT is based on distributed environment. Assuming there can be a central management party to govern the entire environment is not realistic. Hence, IoT requires a feasible distributed trust strategy to overcome the drawback of existing security models.