Securing broker less publish subscribe systems using identity-based encryption

SECURING BROKERLESS PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE SYSTEMS
USING IDENTITY BASED ENCRYPTION
ABSTRACT
The provisioning of basic security mechanisms such as authentication and
confidentiality is highly challenging in a content based publish/subscribe system.
Authentication of publishers and subscribers is difficult to achieve due to the loose
coupling of publishers and subscribers. Likewise, confidentiality of events and
subscriptions conflicts with content-based routing. This paper presents a novel approach
to provide confidentiality and authentication in a broker-less content-based
publish/subscribe system. The authentication of publishers and subscribers as well as
confidentiality of events is ensured, by adapting the pairing-based cryptography
mechanisms, to the needs of a publish/subscribe system. Furthermore, an algorithm to
cluster subscribers according to their subscriptions preserves a weak notion of
subscription confidentiality. In addition to our previous work this paper contributes 1) use
of searchable encryption to enable efficient routing of encrypted events, 2)
multicredential routing a new event dissemination strategy to strengthen the weak
subscription confidentiality, and 3) thorough analysis of different attacks on subscription
confidentiality. The overall approach provides fine-grained key management and the cost
for encryption, decryption, and routing is in the order of subscribed attributes. Moreover,
the evaluations show that providing security is affordable w.r.t. 1) throughput of the
proposed cryptographic primitives, and 2) delays incurred during the construction of the
publish/subscribe overlay and the event dissemination.
EXISTING SYSTEM:
In the past, most research has focused only on providing expressive and scalable
pub/sub systems, but little attention has been paid for the need of security. Existing
approaches toward secure pub/sub systems mostly rely on the presence of a traditional
broker network. These either address security under restricted expressiveness, for
example, by using only keyword matching for routing events or rely on a network of
(semi-)trusted brokers. Furthermore, existing approaches use coarse-grain epoch based

key management and cannot provide fine-grain access control in a scalable manner.
Nevertheless, security in broker-less pub/sub systems, where the subscribers are clustered
according to their subscriptions, has not been discussed yet in the literature.
PROPOSED SYSTEM:
Proposed System presents a new approach to provide authentication and
confidentiality in a broker-less pub/sub system. Our approach allow subscribers
to maintain credentials according to their subscriptions. Private keys assigned to the
subscribers are labeled with the credentials. A publisher associates each encrypted event
with a set of credentials. We adapted identity-based encryption (IBE) mechanisms 1) to
ensure that a particular subscriber can decrypt an event only if there is a match between
the credentials associated with the event and the key; and 2) to allow subscribers to verify
the authenticity of received events. Furthermore, we address the issue of subscription
confidentiality in the presence of semantic clustering of subscribers. A weaker notion of
subscription confidentiality is defined and a secure overlay maintenance protocol is
designed to preserve the weak subscription confidentiality.
PROBLEM STATEMENT:
It include two entities in the system: publishers and subscribers. Both the entities
are computationally bounded and do not trust each other. Moreover, all the peers
(publishers or subscribers) participating in the pub/sub overlay network are honest and do
not deviate from the designed protocol. Likewise, authorized publishers only disseminate
valid events in the system. However, malicious publishers may masquerade the
authorized publishers and spam the overlay network with fake and duplicate events. We
do not intend to solve the digital copyright problem; therefore, authorized subscribers do
not reveal the content of successfully decrypted events to other subscribers.
SCOPE:
The pub/sub overlay proposed is similar to DPS system with modifications to
ensure subscription confidentiality. In this paper, we, therefore, evaluate performance and
scalability of the proposed pub/sub system only with respect to the security mechanisms
and omit other aspects. In particular, we evaluate the performance of our system the
overlay construction time and the event dissemination delays. We measure the average

delay experienced by each subscriber to connect to a suitable position in an attribute tree.
Delay is measured from the time a subscriber sends connection request message to a
random peer in the tree till the time the connection is actually established. The
evaluations are performed only for a single attribute tree. It shows that the average
connection time (delay) increases with the number of peers in the system because of the
increase in the height of the attribute tree (each new hop increases the network delay as
well as time to apply security methods).
MODULE DESCRIPTION:
Number of Modules
After careful analysis the system has been identified to have the following modules:
1. Content-Based Publish/Subcriber Module.
2. Identity Based Encryption Module.
3. Key Generation for Publisher/Subscriber Module.
4. Secure Overlay Maintenance Module.
1.Content-Based Publish/Subscriber Module:
The routing of events from publishers to the relevant subscribers, we use the content-based
data model. We consider pub/sub in a setting where there exists no dedicated
broker infrastructure. Publishers and subscribers contribute as peers to the maintenance of
a self-organizing overlay structure. To authenticate publishers, we use the concept of
advertisements in which a publisher announces beforehand the set of events which it
intends to publish.
2.Identity Based Encryption Module:
In our approach, publishers and subscribers interact with a key server. They provide
credentials to the key server and in turn receive keys which fit the expressed capabilities
in the credentials. Subsequently, those keys can be used to encrypt, decrypt, and sign
relevant messages in the content based pub/sub system, i.e., the credential becomes
authorized by the key server. The keys assigned to publishers and subscribers, and the

ciphertexts, are labeled with credentials. In particular, the identity-based encryption
ensures that a particular key can decrypt a particular ciphertext only if there is a match
between the credentials of the ciphertext and the key. Publishers and subscribers maintain
separate private keys for each authorized credential.
3. Key Generation For Publisher/Subscriber Module:
Publisher keys: Before starting to publish events, a publisher contacts the key server
along with the credentials for each attribute in its advertisement. If the publisher is
allowed to publish events according to its credentials, the key server will generate
separate private keys for each credential. The public key of a publisher p for credential is
generated.
Subscriber keys: Similarly, to receive events matching its subscription, a subscriber
should contact the key server and receive the private keys for the credentials associated
with each attribute A.
4.Secure Overlay Maintenance Module:
The secure overlay maintenance protocol is based on the idea that in the tree, subscribers
are always connected according to the containment relationship between their credential.
A new subscriber s generates a random key SW and encrypts it with the public keys for
all credentials that cover its own credential, for example, a subscriber with credential will
generate ciphertexts by applying the public keys. The generated cipher texts are added to
a connection request (CR) and the request is forwarded to a random peer in the tree. A
connection is established if the peer can decrypt any of the cipher text using its private
keys.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
Operating System : Windows
Technology : Java and J2EE
Web Technologies : Html, JavaScript, CSS
IDE : My Eclipse
Web Server : Tomcat
Tool kit : Android Phone
Database : My SQL
Java Version : J2SDK1.5
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:
Hardware : Pentium
Speed : 1.1 GHz
RAM : 1GB
Hard Disk : 20 GB
Floppy Drive : 1.44 MB
Key Board : Standard Windows Keyboard
Mouse : Two or Three Button Mouse
Monitor : SVGA

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