Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica ›› 2024, Vol. 53 ›› Issue (3): 569-581.doi: 10.11947/j.AGCS.2024.20220564

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A local encryption method for vector maps based on multilevel spatial index structure

DING Chen1, PENG Cheng1, TANG Jianbo1,2, DENG Min1,2,3, YANG Xuexi1,2, LIU Huimin1,2   

  1. 1. School of Geosciences and Info-physics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China;
    2. Hunan Geospatial Information Engineering Technology Research Center, Changsha 410018, China;
    3. School of Geography and Environment, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
  • Received:2022-09-30 Revised:2023-06-06 Published:2024-04-08
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 42271462; 42171441; 42271485); The Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (Nos. 2021JJ40727; 2020JJ4749; 2022JJ40585); Research Project of Hunan Provincial Department of Natural Resources (No.20230121XX); The Third Batch of Short-term Projects for Introducing Innovative Leading Talents in Jiangxi Province's “Double Thousand Plan” (No. jxsq2020102062)

Abstract: Vector maps are the basic data sources of location-based services. In the big data era, vector maps have been used in most of our daily life service applications. The development of big data technologies, which provide great convenience for sending, sharing, acquisition and dynamic update of vector maps, also make it is severe of the security risks such as information leakage and stealing in the process of map data transmission. Existing map encryption methods are usually based on traditional cryptographic algorithms and encrypt the entire vector map, without making full use of the spatial data structure and the distribution characteristics of geographical entities in maps, which make it is difficult for these methods to encrypt parts of the data and cannot meet the needs of applications such as crowdsourced data collection, personalized map services for encrypting parts of the data rather than the entire data. Therefore, this paper proposes a local encryption method for vector maps based on multilevel spatial index structure. Experimental results on real point, line and polygon vector maps show that: ① The proposed method can effectively perform local encryption and local decryption for vector maps; ② Compared with the state-of-the art encryption methods, the proposed method has higher encryption efficiency; ③ The security and the anti-attack ability of the proposed method are significantly improved by using different encryption parameters for different encryption units, which ensures the security of the encryption results.

Key words: vector map encryption, spatial index, chaotic system, local encryption, crowdsourced data

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