Lightweight Group Signature Scheme Based on PUF for UAV Communication Security

This paper presents a certificateless group signature scheme designed specifically for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) communications in resource-constrained environments. The scheme leverages Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) to provide a lightweight security solution while maintaining essential security properties including anonymity, unforgeability, traceability, and unlikability. We describe the cryptographic protocols for system setup, key generation, signing, verification, and revocation mechanisms. The implementation shows promising results for UAV applications where computational resources are limited, while still providing robust security guarantees for group communications. Our approach eliminates the need for computationally expensive certificate management while ensuring that only legitimate group members can create signatures that cannot be linked to their identities except by authorized group managers.