Verifiable Differential Privacy Partial Disclosure for IoT with Stateless k-Use Tokens
Internet of Things (IoT) applications often require only minimal necessary information-such as threshold judgments, binning, or prefixes-yet they must control privacy leakage arising from multi-round and cross-entity access without exposing raw values. Existing solutions, however, frequently rely on ciphertext structures and server-side states, making it difficult to define a leakage upper bound for restricted answers in the sense of Differential Privacy (DP), or they lack unified information budgeting and k-use control. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a verifiable differential privacy partial disclosure scheme for IoT. We employ DP accounting to uniformly constrain the leakage of three types of operators: threshold, binning, and prefix. Furthermore, we design stateless k-use tokens based on Verifiable Random Functions (VRFs) and chained receipts to generate publicly verifiable compliance evidence for each response. We implemented an end-edge-cloud prototype system and evaluated its performance on two use cases: smart meter threshold alarms and industrial sensor out-of-bound detection. Experimental results demonstrate that compared with a baseline relying on server-state counting for k-use control, our stateless k-use mechanism improves throughput by approximately 25-37% under concurrency scales of 1, 8, and 16, and reduces p95 latency by an average of 15%. Meanwhile, in multi-party splicing attack experiments, the re-identification accuracy remains stable in the 0.50-0.52 range, approximating random guessing. These results validate that the proposed scheme possesses low-energy engineering feasibility and audit-friendliness while effectively suppressing splicing risks.
Authors
- Peishun Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4200-0474)
- Dachuan Zheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0631-8496)
- Yilin Pan
- Lin Yong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0574-3837)
- Shengzhao Shu
- Bing Wang
- Zihao Li
- Weijie Shi
- Chunsheng Xu
Institutions
- Ocean University of China (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Sensors
- Published
- 2026-02-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/s26041393
- Primary Topic
- Cryptography and Data Security
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00