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.

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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