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Secure multi-asks/bids with verifiable equality retrieval for double auction in smart grid

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Double auction provides a cost-effective manner for sellers/buyers in smart grid. Due to concerns about information leakage, the asks/bids from sellers/buyers are sealed, making it challenging to select potential winners. To address this problem, the concept of public key encryption with equality test is deployed in double auction, since it is able to perform information retrieval over secure asks/bids. However, previous solutions suffer from the following two limitations: (i) unable to check inconsistent secure asks/bids due to the lack of tester-verifiable mechanism; (ii) incurring high matching time costs caused by one-to-one secure asks/bids. Therefore, we propose the VerDA, a secure double auction retrieval system with verifiable equality retrieval towards multiple secure asks/bids. Technically, to achieve the property of consistency over secure asks/bids, we develop the tester-verifiable technology by combining the decryption module and test module. To improve the efficiency of retrieval, we introduce secure multi-asks/bids testing function by augmenting the number of inputs in a same retrieval process. Moreover, we implement VerDA based on the PJM dataset in real cloud environment, where the experimental results show practical performance with encryption and test costs amounting to only 57.4% and 18.7% compared to state-of-the-art solution.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (62372285), Shanghai Rising-Star Program (22QA1403800), Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (22ZR1427100) and the Open Fund of Advanced Cryptography and System Security Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province (No. SKLACSS-202310).

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  1. College of Computer Science and Technology, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai, China

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  2. Advanced Cryptography and System Security Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu, China

    Kai Zhang

  3. College of Electrical Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai, China

    Jian Zhao

  4. College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China

    Lifei Wei

  5. College of Computer and Cyber Security, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China

    Jianting Ning

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Kai Zhang, Ludan Lu and Lifei Wei designed the algorithm and presented security analysis. Ludan Lu and Jian Zhao conducted the experiment. Kai Zhang, Lifei Wei and Jianting Ning wrote the main manuscript text. All authors reviewed the manuscript.

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Zhang, K., Lu, L., Zhao, J. et al. Secure multi-asks/bids with verifiable equality retrieval for double auction in smart grid. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 17, 3255–3268 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-024-01744-5

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