Wireless-Delimited Secure Zones with Encrypted Attribute-Based Broadcast for Safe Firearms
This addresses safety issues for firearm consumers by introducing a novel cyber-physical system, but it appears incremental as it applies existing encryption methods to a new domain without proven broad impact.
This work tackles firearm safety by proposing wireless-delimited Secure Zones using Attribute-Based Encryption to transmit local policies to firearms, advising consumers on safe operations based on attributes, with a holistic approach that includes a conceptual model for cyber-physical firearms with sensors and a context-aware agent.
This work presents an application of the highly expressive Attribute-Based Encryption to implement wireless-delimited Secure Zones for firearms. Within these zones, radio-transmitted local policies based on attributes of the consumer and the firearm are received by embedded hardware in the firearms, which then advises the consumer about safe operations. The Secure Zones utilize Attribute-Based Encryption to encode the policies and consumer or user attributes, and providing privacy and security through it cryptography. We describe a holistic approach to evolving the firearm to a cyber-physical system to aid in augmenting safety. We introduce a conceptual model for a firearm equipped with sensors and a context-aware software agent. Based on the information from the sensors, the agent can access the context and inform the consumer of potential unsafe operations. To support Secure Zones and the cyber-physical firearm model, we propose a Key Infrastructure Scheme for key generation, distribution, and management, and a Context-Aware Software Agent Framework for Firearms.