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Secure traffic data sharing in UAV-assisted VANET through certificateless proxy re-encryption and consortium blockchain

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In an open and complex communication environment, VANET is vulnerable to malicious attacks, and traditional data sharing methods are inadequate for supporting the massive data interactions in VANET. Existing data sharing schemes for VANET struggle to achieve high efficiency and credibility, along with traceability of user identity, while ensuring the privacy of data and user identity. Addressing these challenges, this paper proposes a UAV-assisted VANET data sharing (UVDS) system based on consortium blockchain. To address the issues of certificate management and key escrow in data access control, this scheme introduces a certificateless proxy re-encryption mechanism. This mechanism can not only protect user identity privacy, but also trace malicious users’ real identities when necessary. Meanwhile, it can prevent unauthorized access by collusion between proxies and data requesters. To enhance authentication efficiency, aggregation technology is used for batch authentication of user identity. For large-scale traffic data storage, the combination of blockchain and IPFS distributed storage technology not only effectively alleviates the pressure of massive traffic data storage, but also assists data applicants in verifying the correctness of re-encrypted data. Security analysis shows that the UVDS system guarantees the secure sharing of traffic data. Theoretical analysis and experimental results demonstrate that this system has significant advantages in computational efficiency and is practical in VANET application.

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This article is supported by the Guangxi Natural Science Foundation under grants 2025GXNSFGA069004 and 2024GXNSFAA010453, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grants 62162017 and 62372067, the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. LZ23F020012, the Guangxi Young Teachers’ Basic Ability Improvement Program under grant 2024KY0224, the Open Topics from The Lion Rock Labs of Cyberspace Security under grant LRL24-1-C003, and the Innovation Project of GUET Graduate Education 2024YCXS111.

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  1. School of Mathematics and Computing Science, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, 541004, China

    Yilin Liu & Huiyong Wang

  2. Hangzhou Innovation Institute of Beihang University, Hangzhou, 310000, China

    Yujue Wang

  3. Institute of Cyberspace Technology, HKCT Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong, China

    Chen Yi, Yong Ding & Changsong Yang

  4. Data Security Department, China Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, Beijing, 100040, China

    Jun Li

  5. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Cryptography and Information Security, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, 541004, China

    Yong Ding & Changsong Yang

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Yilin Liu: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing - original draft. Yujue Wang: Methodology, Supervision, Writing - review & editing. Yong Ding: Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision. Jun Li: Methodology, Writing - review & editing. Chen Yi: Methodology, Writing - review & editing. Changsong Yang: Methodology, Writing - review & editing. Huiyong Wang: Methodology, Writing - review & editing.

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Liu, Y., Wang, Y., Yi, C. et al. Secure traffic data sharing in UAV-assisted VANET through certificateless proxy re-encryption and consortium blockchain. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 18, 143 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-025-01920-1

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