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Privacy-preserving smart metering without a trusted-third-party
Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2011
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Start Page
114
End Page
123
Citation
SECRYPT 2011 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography (): 114-123 (2011)
Contribution to Conference
Scopus ID
Publisher
IEEE
Smartmeters report the current electricity consumption over the internet back to their energy providers. Finelysampled power consumption enables the energy provider to learn the habits of the customer's household in which the smart meter is installed. This paper presents a protocol which preserves customer privacy but also allows the detection of unregistered smart meters and prevents spamming and replay attacks. A trusted third-party is not needed. This protocol, whose security proof relies on the strong RSA assumption and the random oracle model, is based on zero-knowledge techniques. The protocol has been implemented on different hardware platforms and benchmark results are given.
Subjects
Cryptography
Privacy
Smart grid
Smart metering
Zero-knowledge protocols
DDC Class
004: Informatik
510: Mathematik
600: Technik
620: Ingenieurwissenschaften