Secure Data Communication in Iot Supported Social Networking System Using REST API and JSON Web Token

Abstract

Today, Internet of Things (IoT) is facing various problems due to the incredible development.  In this paper the importance of REST API is analyzed and it is employed with JSON. Different kinds of threats related to safety and confidentiality of data are familiar. To resolve the data preaches, secure communication is required for IoT devices as well as IoT system. REST API is utilized for ensuring and enhancing security of IoT system in this paper. End to end encryption is ensured making use of IoT middleware/gateway technology. Mutual authentication among IoT devices is implemented by incorporating authentication and authorization to the IoT system. Real time data communication is significantly concentrated via IoT gateway. Further privacy and confidentiality of data are focused using JSON token. Thus proposed model is working with all the essential security features of IoT system and combat against various attacks like impersonation attack, forgery attack, offline password guessing attack, replay attack and others.