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Since IoT data are vulnerable to eavesdropping, tampering, forgery, and other attacks during an open network transmission, the integrity and authenticity of data are fundamental security requirements in the IoT. A certificateless signature (CLS) is a viable solution for providing data integrity, data authenticity, and identity identification in resource-constrained IoT devices. Therefore, designing a secure and efficient CLS scheme for IoT environments has become one of the main objectives of IoT security research. However, the existing CLS schemes rarely focus on strong unforgeability and replay attacks. Herein, we design a novel CLS scheme to protect the integrity and authenticity of IoT data. In addition to satisfying the strong unforgeability requirement, the proposed scheme also resists public key replacement attacks, malicious-but-passive key-generation-centre attacks, and replay attacks. Compared with other related CLS schemes without random oracles, our CLS scheme has a shorter private key, stronger security, and lower communication and computational costs.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19122692","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,6,14]],"date-time":"2019-06-14T11:19:58Z","timestamp":1560511198000},"page":"2692","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["A Strongly Unforgeable Certificateless Signature Scheme and Its Application in IoT Environments"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Xiaodong","family":"Yang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Science and Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0613-087X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xizhen","family":"Pei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Science and Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guilan","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Science and Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9894-4645","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ting","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Science and Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9335-0920","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Meiding","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Science and Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0759-3251","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Caifen","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Computer Science and Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,6,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1250","DOI":"10.1109\/JIOT.2017.2694844","article-title":"A survey on security and privacy issues in Internet-of-Things","volume":"4","author":"Yang","year":"2017","journal-title":"IEEE Internet Things J."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"546","DOI":"10.1109\/JIOT.2016.2557487","article-title":"A secure and efficient id-based aggregate signature scheme for wireless sensor networks","volume":"4","author":"Shen","year":"2017","journal-title":"IEEE Internet Things J."},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3701","DOI":"10.1109\/TII.2018.2794991","article-title":"Provably secure and lightweight certificateless signature scheme for IIoT environments","volume":"14","author":"Karati","year":"2018","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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