Abstract
Smart grid has emerged as the next-generation electricity grid with power flow optimization and high power quality. Smart grid technologies have attracted the attention of industry and academia in the last few years. However, the tradeoff between security and efficiency remains a challenge in the practical deployment of the smart grid. Most recently, Li et al. proposed a lightweight message authentication scheme with user anonymity and claimed that their scheme is provably secure. But we found that their scheme fails to achieve mutual authentication and mitigate some typical attacks (e.g., impersonation attack, denial of service attack) in the smart grid environment. To address these drawbacks, we present a new message authentication scheme with reasonable efficiency. Security and performance analysis results show that the proposed scheme can satisfy the security and lightweight requirements of practical implementations and deployments of the smart grid.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-12-2019
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/4836016
Funding Information
The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61772377, 61572370, 61572379) and the fund of the Guangxi Key Laboratory of Cryptography and Information Security (No. GCIS201608).
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Repository Citation
Wu, Libing; Wang, Jing; Zeadally, Sherali; and He, Debiao, "Anonymous and Efficient Message Authentication Scheme for Smart Grid" (2019). Information Science Faculty Publications. 62.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/slis_facpub/62
Notes/Citation Information
Published in Security and Communication Networks, v. 2019, article ID 4836016, p. 1-12.
Copyright © 2019 Libing Wu et al.
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