A blockchain-enabled encrypted neural network framework for trust-aware key management and node authentication in Industrial Internet of Things
摘要
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) introduces complex security challenges in key management due to its distributed architecture and resource-constrained nodes. This paper presents a novel blockchain-enabled key management framework designed to ensure decentralized, tamper-resistant, and scalable security across the IIoT network. The system combines Elliptic Curve Cryptography for easy key creation with smart contracts on a private Ethereum blockchain to allow safe key sharing and management throughout its lifecycle. We also present a way to verify the identity of nodes that takes trust into account, using a Graph Convolutional Network improved with the Ranger optimizer to make it work better and more reliably—something that hasn’t been done before in IIoT security systems. Tests using the X-IIoTID dataset, which includes different types of IIoT traffic during normal and attack situations like spoofing and injection, show that the system reaches 98.9% accuracy in authentication while keeping response times low and processing speeds high. The framework effectively mitigates Sybil and replay attacks, providing a scalable and secure solution that improves both trust and performance in distributed IIoT environments, reinforcing secure industrial data exchange.