Effective Identity Authentication Based on Multiattribute Centers for Secure Government Data Sharing

As one of the essential steps to secure government data sharing, Identity Authentication (IA) plays a vital role in the processing of large data. However, the centralized IA scheme based on a trusted third party presents problems of information leakage and single point of failure, and those related to key escrow. Therefore, herein, an effective IA model based on multiattribute centers is designed. First, a private key of each attribute of a data requester is generated by the attribute authorization center. After obtaining the private key of attribute, the data requester generates a personal private key. Second, a dynamic key generation algorithm is proposed, which combines blockchain and smart contracts to periodically update the key of a data requester to prevent theft by external attackers, ensure the traceability of IA, and reduce the risk of privacy leakage. Third, the combination of blockchain and interplanetary file systems is used to store attribute field information of the data requester to further reduce the cost of blockchain information storage and improve the effectiveness of information storage. Experimental results show that the proposed model ensures the privacy and security of identity information and outperforms similar authentication models in terms of computational and communication costs.