Efficient Privacy Preserving in IoMT With Blockchain and Lightweight Secret Sharing

Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) aggregates a series of smart medical devices and fully uses the collected health data to improve user experience, medical resource utilization, and full life cycle protection. However, privacy leakage, data loss, and inefficient sharing problems are still serious in the data-sharing process between different smart medical devices. This article first introduces an efficient privacy-preserving model with blockchain to construct a secure data-sharing mechanism between different device nodes. This model utilizes distributed storage form to solve the centralized management problem and provides a fundamental secret reconstruction and retrieval framework. Then, a lightweight <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$(t,n)$ </tex-math> -threshold secret sharing <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$(t/n$ </tex-math> -SS) scheme is designed to strengthen the medical data-sharing security and efficiency. It utilizes the interleaving encode technology to decrease the length of original message into <tex-math notation="LaTeX">n </tex-math> small shares. These small shares are also suitable for data transmission and processing with a more energy-efficient way. It can protect privacy by destroying the data’s semantic meaning. Meanwhile, it only needs less than <tex-math notation="LaTeX">t (t≤ n) </tex-math> shares to recover the original secrets, making the sharing process more efficient. Moreover, the performance evaluations of transaction processing in IoMT show that the proposed model is very stable. The simulation and performance evaluation results show that this <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$t/n$ </tex-math> -SS scheme is energy efficient, storage saving, and strong fault tolerance than similar literature.