The rapid development of wireless sensors has accelerated the popularity of wireless body area network (WBAN). WBAN use multiple sensors to collect the patient's body data, and the data is transferred to the medical cloud for processing and analyzing. In order to protect the data in the medical cloud, some heterogeneous signcryption schemes that support equality test have been proposed.However, we observe that these schemes use the same cryptographic parameters in different cryptographic systems. In addition, most of these schemes cannot resist the replay attack (RRA) or know session temporary key attack (RKSTKA). To deal with these problems, this paper presents a cross domain heterogeneous signcryption scheme with equality test (CDSCET) for WBAN. In CDSCET, the ciphertexts are from certificateless cryptographic system (CLC) to public key infrastructure (PKI), where two different cryptosystems use different cryptographic parameters.CDSCET can realize confidentiality, integrity, authentication, RRA and RKSTKA. Moreover, compared with three latest schemes, CDSCET has reduced the total computation cost by at least 56.46%.Keywords Wireless body area network Cross domain heterogeneous Signcryption Equality test
IntroductionWireless body area network is an advanced medical branch of wireless sensor network, which can help the doctor to monitor the physical condition of patients, analyze the body data and establish instant communications [1]. Normally, the cloud-assisted WBAN generates and uploads a great deal of data to the medical cloud (MC) [2,3]. However, the data in the MC is suffering many security problems, such as data tampering, eavesdropping, and so on. On the one hand, if any attacker invades into the WBAN system, the patient's private data will be exposed and causes economic losses. On the other hand, if the doctor receives tampered data, it will lead to misjudgment of the patient's disease, which in turn will endanger the life safety of patient. To address this challenge, several data transmission schemes and authentication protocols are proposed [4][5][6], which improve the security of WBAN.In order to ensure the security of WBAN data, an effective method is to encrypt or signcrypt the WBAN data and upload it to the MC. However, this situation makes the data cannot be searched. To remove this obstacle, Boneh et al. [7] introduced the public key encryption scheme adopting keyword search (PKE-KS). The PKE-KS scheme makes the ciphertext searchable through the use of keywords.