Design of a Logistics System with Privacy and Lightweight Verification

Chin-Ling Chen, Dong-Peng Lin, Hsing-Chung Chen, Yong-Yuan Deng and Chin-Feng Lee
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Chin-Ling Chen: School of Computer and Information Engineering, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen 361024, China
Dong-Peng Lin: Department of Information Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung 41349, Taiwan
Hsing-Chung Chen: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, Taichung 41354, Taiwan
Yong-Yuan Deng: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung 41349, Taiwan
Chin-Feng Lee: Department of Information Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung 41349, Taiwan

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 16, 1-22

Abstract: Presently, E-commerce has developed rapidly as a result of many services and applications integrating e-commerce technologies offered online. Buyers can buy goods online and sellers can then deliver the goods to them. Logistics therefore plays an important role in online e-commerce applications, with a focus on rapid delivery, the integrity of goods, and the privacy of personal information. Previous studies have proposed secure mechanisms for the transfer of electronic cash and digital content, in which only the sender and the receiver know the secret information hidden in the signature. However, they did not consider requirements such as the anonymous and lightweight verification in the logistics architecture. Therefore, this study designs a secure logistics system, with anonymous and lightweight verification, in order to meet the following requirements: Mutual authentication, non-repudiation, anonymity, integrity and a low overhead for the logistics environment. A buyer could check the goods and know if the parcel has been exchanged by a malicious person. Moreover, the proposed scheme not only presents a solution to meet the logistics system’s requirements, but also to reduce both computational and communication costs.

Keywords: mutual authentication; privacy; logistics system; ECC; ban logic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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