Security and privacy for smart grid using scalable key management

This paper focuses on the issues of secure key management for smart grid. With the present key management schemes, it will not yield security for deployment in smart grid. A novel key management scheme is proposed in this paper which merges elliptic curve public key technique and symmetric key technique. Based on the Needham-Schroeder authentication protocol, symmetric key scheme works. Well known threats like replay attack and man-in-the-middle attack can be successfully abolished using Smart Grid. The benefits of the proposed system are fault-tolerance, accessibility, Strong security, scalability and Efficiency.