Homomorphic Primitives for a Privacy-friendly Smart Metering Architecture

Benjamin Vetter, Osman Ugus, Dirk Westhoff, Christoph Sorge

2012

Abstract

We propose a privacy-friendly smart metering architecture which is yet flexible enough to serve various future third party energy services. Our secure architecture may be deployed as a cloud service and allows processing of SQL queries on encrypted measurements, providing aggregated results in a most flexible manner. A combination of homomorphic encryption and homomorphic MACs provides confidentiality of the users’ energy consumptions, allowing integrity checks and enhanced SQL-queries on encrypted data. Our extensive performance analysis shows that our approach is promising with respect to storage and computational overhead.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Vetter B., Ugus O., Westhoff D. and Sorge C. (2012). Homomorphic Primitives for a Privacy-friendly Smart Metering Architecture . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-24-2, pages 102-112. DOI: 10.5220/0004036601020112

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt12,
author={Benjamin Vetter and Osman Ugus and Dirk Westhoff and Christoph Sorge},
title={Homomorphic Primitives for a Privacy-friendly Smart Metering Architecture},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={102-112},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004036601020112},
isbn={978-989-8565-24-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2012)
TI - Homomorphic Primitives for a Privacy-friendly Smart Metering Architecture
SN - 978-989-8565-24-2
AU - Vetter B.
AU - Ugus O.
AU - Westhoff D.
AU - Sorge C.
PY - 2012
SP - 102
EP - 112
DO - 10.5220/0004036601020112