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SE-LAKAF: Security enhanced lightweight authentication and key agreement framework for smart grid network

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The Smart Grid (SG) improves the reliability and efficiency of the data sharing and communication of the traditional power grid system. This enhancement brings security requirements such as mutual Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA) among the Smart Meters (SMs) and Service Providers (SPs). Several authentication and key agreement frameworks are designed in the literature to preserve SM privacy and maintain secure transmission of data among the communicating entities in SG networks. However, some of the existing schemes either suffer from security limitations or generate high computation overhead. To overcome these drawbacks recently, Khan et al. proposed a Lightweight Authentication and Key Agreement Framework (LAKAF). However, it is observed that their framework did not maintain user anonymity and secrecy of the session key. As a countermeasure to these limitations, we propose a Security Enhanced Lightweight Authentication and Key Agreement Framework (SE-LAKAF) based on the fuzzy extractor, elliptic curve cryptography, and AES-based hybrid encryption decryption mechanism. The theoretical security analysis demonstrates that the proposed framework protects the network from replay, impersonation, denial of service, and man-in-the-middle attacks, maintains the session key security and user anonymity. The proposed framework is formally verified using well known AVISPA tool, BAN logic and random oracle model. Further, the performance analysis illustrates that the SE-LAKAF generates competitive communication and computation overheads with improved security compared to other existing frameworks.

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The work reported in the manuscript is a part of the project “Blockchain Enabled Public Key Infrastructure based Solutions for Internet of Things (IoT)”. It was partially supported by the SEED Money/Research Grant of the author Dr. Balu L. Parne, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT), Surat, India.

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Mehta, P.J., Parne, B.L. & Patel, S.J. SE-LAKAF: Security enhanced lightweight authentication and key agreement framework for smart grid network. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 16, 1513–1535 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-023-01494-w

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