Title :
Security Weakness in the Smart Grid Key Distribution Scheme Proposed by Xia and Wang
Author :
Je Hong Park ; Minkyu Kim ; Daesung Kwon
Author_Institution :
Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
In this paper, we show that the cryptographic key generation and distribution scheme for the smart gird proposed by Xia and Wang is vulnerable to the impersonation attack by which the adversary is able to impersonate the responder to the initiator. Furthermore, on the basis of this vulnerability, we point out that Xia and Wang´s argument for resistance against the unknown key share (UKS) attack is incorrect.
Keywords :
cryptography; data privacy; distribution networks; power system security; smart power grids; UKS; cryptographic key distribution scheme; cryptographic key generation scheme; security weakness; smart grid key distribution scheme; unknown key share attack; Algorithm design and analysis; Public key; Resistance; Servers; Smart grids; Impersonation attack; key distribution; smart grid;
Journal_Title :
Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TSG.2013.2258823