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A secure and efficient key agreement framework for critical energy infrastructure using mobile device

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Internet of Energy (IoE) provides two-way communication for reform of energy utilization between service providers and consumers. To provide secure, efficient, and reliable operations in IoE should be protected from cyber-attacks. Many frameworks have been proposed so far to address security and privacy concerns of these systems. In the vehicle-grid system, we propose a useful mutual authenticated key agreement framework using elliptic curve cryptography and hash function. The aim of the proposed protocol is to maintain secure communication between vehicles and the grid system with reliable computation and communication costs. In the proposed protocol, a vehicular user securely access services that are provided by the grid server. We prove the security of the proposed framework in formal and informal ways. We also show the correctness of the mutual authentication and key agreement of this framework by using Burrows–Abadi–Needham logic. We provide formal security verification of the proposed protocol by using AVISPA tool. Further, we show that this work is better in terms of computation and communication costs compare to other related protocols in the same environment. As a result, the proposed framework is a real life-application in this system.

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We would like to thanks Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Muhammad Khurram Khan and anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and valuable suggestions that have resulted in the improvement of this manuscript. The author acknowledges Dr. Iftikhar and Dr. Aisha Jabeen, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi for valuable suggestions.

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  1. Department of Applied Sciences and Humanities, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 110025, India

    Akber Ali Khan & Musheer Ahmad

  2. Department of Mathematics, PGDAV College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, 110065, India

    Vinod Kumar

  3. Department of Computer Engineering, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Kurukshetra, India

    B. B. Gupta

  4. Department of Computer Engineering, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan

    B. B. Gupta

  5. Department of Computer Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, 110025, India

    Musheer Ahmad

  6. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Menoufia University, Shibin El Kom, Al Minufiyah, 32511, Egypt

    Ahmed A. Abd El-Latif

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Khan, A.A., Kumar, V., Ahmad, M. et al. A secure and efficient key agreement framework for critical energy infrastructure using mobile device. Telecommun Syst 78, 539–557 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-021-00826-6

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