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Certificateless Authentication and Consensus for the Blockchain-Based Smart Grid

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Authentication and key agreement scheme facilitates secure two-way communication in the smart grid (SG) and enables each entity to verify whether the received message comes from a legitimate sender. Also, it assists in establishing the shared key that will be used to secure subsequent communication. Several schemes of authentication and key agreement have been proposed over the last few years, but many of them are not efficient in terms of communication overhead and computational overhead. In addition to that, they do not adequately adhere to the fundamental security of the smart grid authentication, such as forward secrecy. In this paper, we suggest a certificateless authentication and consensus for a blockchain-based smart grid. The proposed protocol has a lightweight communication overhead and puts less computation cost on the smart meter. Furthermore, it satisfies the fundamental security requirements of the smart grid, plus consensus in the blockchain. Besides, the security of the proposed protocol is rooted in the intractability assumption of the elliptic curve discrete logarithm (ECDL) problem, and it is proved using the random oracle model (ROM).

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This work is supported by the Sichuan Science and Technology Program (grant no. 2021YFG0157).

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Nkurunziza, E., Mwitende, G., Tandoh, L., Li, F. (2022). Certificateless Authentication and Consensus for the Blockchain-Based Smart Grid. In: Cao, C., Zhang, Y., Hong, Y., Wang, D. (eds) Frontiers in Cyber Security. FCS 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1558. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0523-0_9

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