Efficient and Provably Secure Key Agreement for Modern Smart Metering Communications
Security in modern smart metering communications and in smart grid networks has been an area of interest recently. In this field, identity-based mutual authentication including credential privacy without active involvement of a trusted third party is an important building block for smart grid techno...
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| description | Security in modern smart metering communications and in smart grid networks has been an area of interest recently. In this field, identity-based mutual authentication including credential privacy without active involvement of a trusted third party is an important building block for smart grid technology. Recently, several schemes have been proposed for the smart grid with various security features (e.g., mutual authentication and key agreement). Moreover, these schemes are said to offer session key security under the widely accepted Canetti-Krawczyk (CK) security model. Instead, we argue that all of them are still vulnerable under the CK model. To remedy the problem, we present a new provably secure key agreement model for smart metering communications. The proposed model preserves the security features and provides more resistance against a denial of service attack. Moreover, our scheme is pairing-free, resulting in highly efficient computational and communication efforts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9a0926d3ce314648aa4aa51ecb6d25f12022-12-22T04:22:47ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732018-10-011110266210.3390/en11102662en11102662Efficient and Provably Secure Key Agreement for Modern Smart Metering CommunicationsAn Braeken0Pardeep Kumar1Andrew Martin2Industrial Engineering INDI, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, BelgiumDepartment of Computer Science, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 3QD, UKDepartment of Computer Science, Oxford University, Oxford OX1 3QD, UKSecurity in modern smart metering communications and in smart grid networks has been an area of interest recently. In this field, identity-based mutual authentication including credential privacy without active involvement of a trusted third party is an important building block for smart grid technology. Recently, several schemes have been proposed for the smart grid with various security features (e.g., mutual authentication and key agreement). Moreover, these schemes are said to offer session key security under the widely accepted Canetti-Krawczyk (CK) security model. Instead, we argue that all of them are still vulnerable under the CK model. To remedy the problem, we present a new provably secure key agreement model for smart metering communications. The proposed model preserves the security features and provides more resistance against a denial of service attack. Moreover, our scheme is pairing-free, resulting in highly efficient computational and communication efforts.http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/10/2662smart metering networkauthenticationcanetti-krawczykECQV certificatesanonymity |
| spellingShingle | An Braeken Pardeep Kumar Andrew Martin Efficient and Provably Secure Key Agreement for Modern Smart Metering Communications Energies smart metering network authentication canetti-krawczyk ECQV certificates anonymity |
| title | Efficient and Provably Secure Key Agreement for Modern Smart Metering Communications |
| title_full | Efficient and Provably Secure Key Agreement for Modern Smart Metering Communications |
| title_fullStr | Efficient and Provably Secure Key Agreement for Modern Smart Metering Communications |
| title_full_unstemmed | Efficient and Provably Secure Key Agreement for Modern Smart Metering Communications |
| title_short | Efficient and Provably Secure Key Agreement for Modern Smart Metering Communications |
| title_sort | efficient and provably secure key agreement for modern smart metering communications |
| topic | smart metering network authentication canetti-krawczyk ECQV certificates anonymity |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/10/2662 |
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