A Lightweight Authenticated Key Establishment Scheme for Secure Smart Grid Communications

Salem, Fatty M.; Ibrahim, Elham; Elghandour, Osama

doi:10.18280/ijsse.100415

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“…A typical AMI comprises concentrators, smart meters, and measurement data management systems. On the other hand, a typical SG is made up of control, sensing, and communication systems and actuators [3]. Whereas smart meters (SMs) perform sensing and communication, actuation and control are executed by service providers (SPs).…”

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A Provably Secure Anonymous Authentication Protocol for Consumer and Service Provider Information Transmissions in Smart Grids

Ali,

Abduljabbar,

AL-Asadi

et al. 2024

Cryptography

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Smart grids integrate information technology, decision support systems, communication networks, and sensing technologies. All these components cooperate to facilitate dynamic power adjustments based on received client consumption reports. Although this brings forth energy efficiency, the transmission of sensitive data over the public internet exposes these networks to numerous attacks. To this end, numerous security solutions have been presented recently. Most of these techniques deploy conventional cryptographic systems such as public key infrastructure, blockchains, and physically unclonable functions that have either performance or security issues. In this paper, a fairly efficient authentication scheme is developed and analyzed. Its formal security analysis is carried out using the Burrows–Abadi–Needham (BAN) logic, which shows that the session key negotiated is provably secure. We also execute a semantic security analysis of this protocol to demonstrate that it can resist typical smart grid attacks such as privileged insider, guessing, eavesdropping, and ephemeral secret leakages. Moreover, it has the lowest amount of computation costs and relatively lower communication overheads as well as storage costs.

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A Provably Secure Anonymous Authentication Protocol for Consumer and Service Provider Information Transmissions in Smart Grids

Ali,

Abduljabbar,

AL-Asadi

et al. 2024

Cryptography

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“…An SG mainly comprises four elements: sensing, control, actuation, and communication systems. The sensing and communication processes are performed by smart meters (SMs), which are the significant components of an SG, while service providers perform actuation and communication (SPs) [ 1 ].…”

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LACP-SG: Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Smart Grids

Tanveer

Alasmary

2023

Sensors

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Smart grid (SG) recently acquired considerable attention due to their utilization in sustaining demand response management in power systems. Smart meters (SMs) deployed in SG systems collect and transmit data to the server. Since all communications between SM and the server occur through a public communication channel, the transmitted data are exposed to adversary attacks. Therefore, security and privacy are essential requirements in the SG system for ensuring reliable communication. Additionally, an AuthentiCation (AC) protocol designed for secure communication should be lightweight so it can be applied in a resource-constrained environment. In this article, we devise a lightweight AC protocol for SG named LACP-SG. LACP-SG employs the hash function, “Esch256”, and “authenticated encryption” to accomplish the AC phase. The proposed LACP-SG assures secure data exchange between SM and server by validating the authenticity of SM. For encrypted communication, LACP-SG enables SM and the server to establish a session key (SEK). We use the random oracle model to substantiate the security of the established SEK. Moreover, we ascertain that LACP-SG is guarded against different security vulnerabilities through Scyther-based security validation and informal security analysis. Furthermore, comparing LACP-SG with other related AC protocols demonstrates that LACP-SG is less resource-intensive while rendering better security characteristics.

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“…The block diagram of a typical SCADA system is depicted in Figure 1. For continuous monitoring and control of plant floor devices, sensors and actuators are used to measure different attributes of machinery and transmit that information to field devices [5]. Further, the field control devices, namely, PLCs, RTUs, and IEDs supply digital status information to the MTU (typically placed at the remote location) to determine the acceptable ranges according to parameters set in the server.…”

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An Efficient Key Management and Multi-Layered Security Framework for SCADA Systems

Upadhyay

Zaman

Joshi

et al. 2022

IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manage.

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Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) networks play a vital role in industrial control systems. Industrial organizations perform operations remotely through SCADA systems to accelerate their processes. However, this enhancement in network capabilities comes at the cost of exposing the systems to cyber-attacks. Consequently, effective solutions are required to secure industrial infrastructure as cyber-attacks on SCADA systems can have severe financial and/or safety implications. Moreover, SCADA field devices are equipped with microcontrollers for processing information and have limited computational power and resources. This makes the deployment of sophisticated security features challenging. As a result, effective lightweight cryptography solutions are needed to strengthen the security of industrial plants against cyber threats. In this paper, we have proposed a multi-layered framework by combining both symmetric and asymmetric key cryptographic techniques to ensure high availability, integrity, confidentiality, authentication and scalability. Further, an efficient session key management mechanism is proposed by merging random number generation with a hashed message authentication code. Moreover, for each session, we have introduced three symmetric key cryptography techniques based on the concept of Vernam cipher and a preshared session key, namely, random prime number generator, prime counter, and hash chaining. The proposed scheme satisfies the SCADA requirements of real-time request response mechanism by supporting broadcast, multicast, and point to point communication.

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A Lightweight Authenticated Key Establishment Scheme for Secure Smart Grid Communications

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

A Provably Secure Anonymous Authentication Protocol for Consumer and Service Provider Information Transmissions in Smart Grids

A Provably Secure Anonymous Authentication Protocol for Consumer and Service Provider Information Transmissions in Smart Grids

LACP-SG: Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Smart Grids

An Efficient Key Management and Multi-Layered Security Framework for SCADA Systems

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