Implementation of IRIS authentication on industrial IoT devices for secured boot process

Vaishnav, Pragya; Babu, Md. Ashraful; Jain, Swati; Sharma, Shilpa; Bhavnagar, Vaibhav

doi:10.47974/JDMSC-2470

Open Access Research Article

Implementation of IRIS authentication on industrial IoT devices for secured boot process

Pragya Vaishnavpragya.vaishnav@jaipur.manipal.eduDepartment of Computer Applications Manipal University JaipurDepartment of Computer Applications Manipal University Jaipur Jaipur, Rajasthan, 303007, IndiaView full profile → , Md. Ashraful Babuashraful388@gmail.comDepartment of Physical Sciences Independent University1229, 1229, BangladeshView full profile → , Swati Jainswati.jain@jaipur.manipal.eduDepartment of Computer Applications Manipal University JaipurJaipur, Rajasthan, 303007, IndiaView full profile → , Shilpa Sharmashilpa.sharma@jaipur.manipal.eduDepartment of Computer Applications Manipal University JaipurJaipur, Rajasthan, 303007, IndiaView full profile → , ^*Vaibhav BhavnagarCorresponding authorvaibhav.bhatnagar@jaipur.manipal.eduDepartment of Computer Applications Manipal University JaipurJaipur, Rajasthan, 303007, IndiaView full profile →

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pp. 397–410Vol. 29Issue 2-AFebruary 2026DOI: 10.47974/JDMSC-2470 Crossmark XML

Received:: 08 Apr 2025
Published Online:: 31 Dec 2025
Article type:: Research Article
Language:: EN
Article no.:: JDMSC-2470
Pages:: 397–410

Abstract

Instant Retrieval Information System (IRIS) is a hardware subsystem designed to provide IoT devices with secure boot functionality. The author presents an iris can be used to IoT devices, together with a hardware secure boot solution. IRIS has the ability to boot a Linux kernel image that has been pre-stored on removable media. It also has a data validator that ensures the boot process’s secrecy, integrity, and validity. It has been observed that with the use of field programmable gate array chips, IRIS has short boot up times and a tiny hardware footprint. Subsequently, Electronic Linux Unified Key Setup (Embedded LUKS) an open-source crypto-core, can be implemented outside of the boot loading process to add secrecy, integrity, and validity to data saved on off-chip storage, such as a flash device. Thus, IRIS demonstrated an open-source generic solution that can be tailored to many architectures.

Keywords

Industrial IoT IRIS Boot Security Verification Chain of trust (CoT)Unified extensible firmware (UEFI)

Subject Classifications

68M25

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