A Secure Unicast/Multicast Authentication and Key Distribution Protocols for Smart Grid
- 1 Department of Electronics and Communication, Benha Engineering University, Egypt
- 2 Department of Informatics Science, Faculty of Information Technology and Computer Science, Nile University, Egypt
- 3 Department of Informatics, Electronics Research Institute, Egypt
Abstract
This study discusses the problem of key distribution protocol in IoT systems especially smart grids for two modes of communication: Unicast and multicast. In the present paper, we suggested two protocols for key distribution for both unicast and multicast communication. The proposed schemes are based on symmetric key encryption with cryptographic primitives: Hashes and nonces. In addition, the multicast key distribution protocol is based on a logical key hierarchy to reduce communication and computation overheads in case of any member change. The proposed solutions are compared to other protocols based on communication and computation overheads, and the ability to resist well-known attacks. The comparison shows that the proposed protocols have the lowest overheads while resisting known attacks. To ensure the correctness and security of the proposed protocol, it is analyzed using a logical tool (BAN logic). The analysis illustrates that the proposed protocols are free from bugs or redundancies.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajeassp.2022.331.343
Copyright: © 2022 Samah Mohamed Sayed, Heba Kamal Aslan and Ayman Mohamed Hassan. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- IoT Security
- Key Management
- Symmetric Key Distribution
- SM Modes of Operations
- Unicast Key Distribution
- Multicast Key Distribution
- Broadcast Key Distribution
- BAN Logic