A Localized Bloom Filter-Based CP-ABE in Smart Healthcare

• Published in: Applied sciences 2022-12, Vol.12 (24), p.12720
• Main Authors: Priya Remamany, Krishna, Maheswari, K., Ramesh Babu Durai, C, Anushkannan, N. K., Victoria, D. Rosy Salomi, Ben Othman, Mohamed Tahar, Hamdi, Monia, Hamam, Habib
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Access control; bloom filter; break glass; Cloud computing; Communication; Cryptography; data preserving; Data transmission; Electronic health records; Electronic medical records; encryption; Enterprise content management; Facial recognition technology; Health care; Health care facilities; Internet of medical things; Internet of Things; Patients; Physicians; Privacy; Scientific papers; Security; smart healthcare; Wearable technology
• ISSN: 2076-3417; 2076-3417
• DOI: 10.3390/app122412720

Wearable technology-supported cloud-based smart health (s-health) has emerged as a promising answer to increase the efficiency and quality of healthcare as a result of rapid improvements in Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. However, the issues of data security and privacy preservation have not been fully resolved. In recent years, ciphertext policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE), which was developed as a versatile and potent cryptographic fundamental to accomplish one-to-many encryption with fine-grained access control, has been seen as a viable answer to the security issue in the cloud. The attribute values in the access policy, however, are supplied in cleartext in standard CP-ABE. This will conveniently reveal the data owners’ privacy (patients). Because the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare stores sensitive data in the cloud, security is crucial. The data must always be accessed via an access key when using traditional encryption techniques. Though the data cannot be accessed right away in an emergency, this offers greater security. The healthcare IoT created the break-glass concept to address this. The encryption technique is integrated with the broken glass idea to offer data protection and simple access in emergency scenarios. The majority of research papers employ cypher text policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) with the broken glass idea to secure electronic health records. For improving data accessibility in the smart healthcare environment, modified cypher text policy attribute-based encryption (MCP-ABE) with the broken glass (BG) technique is suggested. Greater information security is achieved with this method, but the access policy is also dependent on keys that are vulnerable to hacking. To analyze the access policy individually throughout the key generation process, the attribute-based encryption procedure in this case uses the bloom filter. Information about the access policy is kept intact, which enhances the security of the keys. To continue serving patients and saving their lives, this modified CP-ABE is integrated with break glass in the smart healthcare facility. The experimental results demonstrated that, when compared to the lightweight break-glass procedure, the proposed solution is likewise the best in terms of decreased overhead. The main benefit of this strategy is that it uses the bloom filter concept in the MCP-ABE process, which protects the access policy attributes, to ensure that the key is never comprom