Abstract
The blockchain-enabled industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) faces security threats such as quantum computing attacks and privacy disclosure. Targeting these issues, in this study, we design a new lattice-based linkable ring signature (LRS) scheme, which is used to achieve privacy protection for the blockchain-enabled IIoT. Firstly, by using the trapdoor generation algorithm on the lattice and the rejection sampling lemma, we propose a new lattice-based LRS scheme with anti-quantum security and anonymity. Then, we introduce it into blockchain. Through the stealth address and key image technologies, we construct a privacy protection scheme for blockchain in the IIoT, and this LRS scheme protects identity privacy for users through anonymous blockchain. In addition, it also can resist the double spending attack with the linking user's signature. Lastly, we provide a security analysis, and it is proven that our ring signature scheme satisfies correctness, anonymity, unforgeability and linkability. Compared with other similar schemes, the performance simulation indicates that our scheme's public key and signature are shorter in size, and its computation overhead and time cost are lower. Consequently, our novel LRS scheme is more secure and practical, which provides privacy protection and anti-quantum security for the blockchain-enabled IIoT.