Fog and Internet of Things Network Security through Blowfish Cipher

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RESEARCH ARTICLE
Fog and Internet of Things Network Security through Blowfish Cipher
B. Usharani
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Green Fields,
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
Received: 02-12-2017; Revised: 25-12-2017; Accepted: 20-01-2018
ABSTRACT
The data are stored and accessed in a cloud from the remote server with the help of services provided by
cloud service providers. Security is a major issue as the data are transmitted to the remote server through
the internet. Encryption is a better solution to secure the information when storing data at remote servers.
Fog computing is evolved to overcome the security issues in cloud. Still, there are some data security
issues in fog computing. An encryption algorithm plays a key role in the cloud security. Network-based
intrusion prevention system is used to detect threats in real time. To provide a secure data access in cloud,
advanced encryption techniques can be used for storing and retrieving data from cloud. Furthermore,
proper key management techniques can be used to distribute the key to the cloud users such that only
authorized persons can access the data. The Blowfish encryption can never be hacked. In this paper,
Blowfish cipher technique is implemented for the security to fog of internet of things network.
Key words: Blowfish, cipher techniques, fog, internet of things, network security
INTRODUCTION
As the number of devices connected to internet
increases, there would be definitely a problem
in storage and information retrieval process. Fog
computing has been introduced overcome the
security issues in the cloud computing. Huge
amount of data produced by internet of things (IoT)
devices and storing data into cloud and retrieving
is highly difficult. Hence, fog has been introduced.
IoThad led evolution to the fog computing because
of the increased number of devices producing
massive amount of data. In cloud computing, there
are many security issues as of man in the middle
attack and even the encryption of data is not safe
method for cloud. It does not identify the difference
between user and attacker. It does not concentrate
on the security of the data. Cloud provides various
services for storing and accessing of the data in
which the major problem is that failure to provide
security for the data against attackers. It is not
providing any level of assurance to the user about
the security of the data. Hence, developing a more
secure cloud is not enough because there would
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be continuous attacks happening on the cloud, and
there are chances that the data would be leaked
or it might be lost forever. Hence, fog computing
came into existence which is considered to be
the most secure form of data storage. Hence, in
this, we are trying to achieve more security at the
level of fog by introducing encryption to the data
using the Blowfish encryption standard algorithm
technique. The paper introduces Blowfish
algorithm in the fog environment, so whenever
user sends data to fog for storing in the cloud, the
fog will encrypt the data and send it to the cloud.
Moreover, whenever user requests for the data, the
encrypted data travel from cloud to fog and fog
to end user, and the data will be decrypted at end
user.
FOG COMPUTING [FIGURE 1]
In cloud computing concept, all the data produced
from the users will be directly stored into the cloud
and then it is analyzed with massive warehouses
with analytics going on it and then decisions are
made to act on data, and eventually, notifications
are pushed to act on those decisions. In fog
computing, the users will be notified what are the
actions that are needed to be taken on the data and
then analytics are applied on the received data and
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stored it into the cloud. Fog computing is said to
be an extension of the cloud but not a replacement
of it. As the number of the devices connected to
the internet has been increasing at rapid speed, and
even advancement in the IoT has led this number
to increase drastically [Figure 2].
IoT devices interact with fog nodes only when
they need to offload a processing or storage
request. Any other interactions would not be
considered as part of the fog environment as such
communications would happen as part of the
network. These fog nodes interact with each other
when they need to effectively manage network
resources or to manage network itself. They may
even operate in distributed manner to perform
a specific task. To secure communications in
a fog computing environment, the following
communications between these devices are to be
secured:
1. Communications between constrained - IoT
devices and fog nodes and
2. Communications between fog nodes.
Usually, an IoT device can initiate communication
with any of the fog nodes in the fog network
requesting for a processing or storage requirement.
RELATED WORK
Alrawais et al. discussed the security and privacy
challenges of fog computing in IoT environments.
They discussed how to use fog computing to
improve the security and privacy issues in IoT
environments. In addition, Hong et al. evaluated
the programming model for large scale and
latency sensitive IoT applications exploiting the
fog computing platform. They studied the model
with a camera network and connected vehicle
applications and showed the efficient role of fog
computing in IoT. Al Faruque and Vatanparvar
proposed a software-defined network based on
vehicle ad hoc networking supported by fog
computing. The proposed architecture solves
many issues in vehicle ad hoc networks by rising
the connectivity between vehicles, vehicle-to-
infrastructure, and vehicle to base station while
integrating fog computing to decrease latency and
provide resource utility. Koo and Hur proposed a
deduplication scheme for encrypted data.
CIPHER TECHNIQUES
The original message is called as the plain text.
The coded message is known as ciphertext. The
process of converting plain text to ciphertext is
known as encryption or enciphering.
Cryptographic algorithms and protocols are
divided into four categories:
1. Symmetric encryption
2. Asymmetric encryption
3. Data integrity algorithms
4. Authentication protocols.
Network and Internet security consists of
measures to deter, prevent, detect, and correct
security violations that involve the transmission
of information. A logical information channel
is established by defining the route through the
internet from source to destination by the use of
communication protocols such as transmission
control protocol/internet protocol by the sender
and receiver.
Figure 1: Fog computing architecture
Figure 2: An example for IOT based on fog computing

Encryption key is used in conjunction with the
transformation to scramble the message before
transmission and unscramble it on receiver side.
Symmetric encryption is a form of cryptosystem
in which encryption and decryption are performed
using the same key. Symmetric encryption
transforms plain text into ciphertext using a secret
key and encryption algorithm.
E(K,X) (1)
Symmetric encryption of plain text X using secret
key K.E. is the encryption algorithm applied on
the plain text and key to transform to a ciphertext.
The process of converting ciphertext to plain text
is known as decryption or deciphering. In the
symmetric encryption, using the same key that is
used for encryption and a decryption algorithm,
the plain text is recovered from the ciphertext.
D(K,Y) (2)
Symmetric encryption of ciphertext Y using secret
key K.D. is the decryption algorithm applied on
the ciphertext and key to recover original message.
With the message X and the encryption key
as input, the encryption algorithm forms the
ciphertext Y=(Y1
,Y2
,Y3
,…….Yn
).
Y=E(K,X)
With the cipher message Y and the decryption key
as input, the decryption algorithm forms the plain
text
X=D(K,Y)
Security of an encryption scheme depends on the
length of the key.
BLOWFISH CIPHER TECHNIQUE
Blowfish is an encryption algorithm that can be
used as a replacement for the data encryption
standard (DES) or International Data Encryption
Algorithm (IDEA) algorithms. It is a symmetric
or conventional block cipher that uses a variable-
length key, from 32 bits to 448 bits. Blowfish uses
a 64-bit block size and a key length of any size
from 32 bits to 448 bits. It is a 16-round Feistel
cipher and uses large key-dependent S-boxes. It
uses fixed S-boxes [Figure 3].
Blowfish’s key schedule starts by initializing the
P-array and S-boxes with values derived from the
hexadecimal digits of pi, which contain no obvious
pattern. The secret key is then XORed with the
P-entries in order (cycling the key if necessary).
A 64-bit all-zero block is then encrypted with the
algorithm as it stands. The resultant ciphertext
replaces P1 and P2. The ciphertext is then
encrypted again with the new subkeys, and P3
and P4 are replaced by the new ciphertext. This
continues replacing the entire P-array and all the
S-box entries. In all, the Blowfish encryption
algorithm will run 521 times to generate all the
subkeys - about 4 KB of data is processed.
a. Blowfish flowchart
b. Blowfish data encryption technique [Figures 4
and 5].
Blowfish uses 16 rounds. Each round consists of
key-dependent permutation and a key- and data-
dependent substitution. All operations are XORs
and additions on 32-bit words. The only additional
operations are four indexed array data lookup
tables for each round.
PROPOSED SYSTEM [FIGURE 6]
By selecting the cloud services, the users are able
to store their local data in the remote data server.
The data stored in remote data center can be
accessed or managed through the cloud services
provided by the cloud service providers. Hence,
the data stored in a remote data center for data
processing should be done with utmost care. To
achieve more security at the level of fog, the
proposed system introduces encryption to the data
using the Blowfish encryption standard algorithm
technique. The proposed system introduces
Blowfish algorithm in the fog environment, so
whenever user sends data to fog for storing data
in the cloud, the fog will encrypt the data and
send it to the cloud. When user requests data,
Figure 3: S-box structure

Figure 4: Flowchart for Blowfish algorithm
the encrypted data travel from cloud to fog and
fog to end user, and the data will be decrypted at
end user. It is very difficult to hack the Blowfish
algorithm. The proposed system presents security
to the network or transmission data by Blowfish
algorithm in fog computing, which makes the data
of the end user more secured while the data are
traveling from cloud to fog or fog to cloud.
CONCLUSIONS
Conventional methods of encryption work on
letters, so their usage has been declined for
blocks. Blowfish algorithm is the replacement
of DES and IDEA algorithms in the cipher
techniques. The advantage of Blowfish is the
variable length of the key size, i.e., from 32
to 448 bits. Blowfish is accepted as a strong
encryption algorithm and fast cipher technique.
The strength of the Blowfish is the generation
of the subkeys, and it is very difficult to the
attacker because it is very complex to identify a
key, i.e., for each key generation, the encryption
routine runs 522 times. In this paper, Blowfish
is implemented in fog network for IoT devices.
An additional layer of security is added for data
retrieval; this makes the intruder very difficult to
hack the data.

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