Certificateless Designated Verifier Anonymous Aggregate Signature Scheme for Healthcare Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

The contradiction between the growing demand for healthcare and the lack of professional medical staff urgently needs to be resolved. Healthcare wireless sensor technology is an important option to resolve this contradiction. Patients use wearable devices to collect various health indicators and send them to doctors for diagnosis in a timely manner. This breaks the time and space constraints in traditional medical methods. Patient's data is transmitted over a public network. Therefore, protecting data security and patient privacy has become an urgent issue for healthcare wireless sensor networks (HWSNs). In this article, we first presented a system model for certificateless designated verifier anonymous aggregate signature (CL-DVAAS) scheme for HWSNs, and investigated the security attributes. We then gave a concrete construction and showed the security proofs. We finally compared the new scheme with several other schemes, and the results show that the new scheme is more computationally efficient.