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J-PAKE and ECC Based Authentication Protocol for Smart Grid Network

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Traditional utility network is gradually transforming into Smart Grid (SG) network to better address the challenges in energy supply and demand gap. SG offers bidirectional communication and bidirectional energy flow. Authenticated access of customers’ information is one of the research challenge in SG. Some attempts have been made by various research groups in the direction of password based authentication protocols to address the security challenges in SG. This paper presents a multilayer protocol using Password Authenticated Key Exchange by Juggling (J-PAKE) combined with Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). Performance is compared with previous Password Authenticated Key Exchange based solutions. Theoretical analysis suggests that the proposed protocol is more secure than previous attempts and offers reduced communication and computation cost as compared to J-PAKE.

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  1. Symbiosis International (Deemed) University, Pune, 412 115, India

    Aarti Agarkar

  2. Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Symbiosis International (Deemed) University, Pune, 412 115, India

    Himanshu Agrawal

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  2. Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan, India

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  3. Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology, Guna, Madhya Pradesh, India

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  4. Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Prague 8, Czech Republic

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Agarkar, A., Agrawal, H. (2018). J-PAKE and ECC Based Authentication Protocol for Smart Grid Network. In: Singh, M., Gupta, P., Tyagi, V., Flusser, J., Ören, T. (eds) Advances in Computing and Data Sciences. ICACDS 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 906. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1813-9_51

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