Certificateless broadcast signcryption scheme supporting equality test in smart grid

Abstract

With the development of cloud computing and the application of Internet of Things (IoT) in the smart grid, a massive amount of sensitive data is produced by the terminal equipment. This vast amount of data is subject to various attacks during transmission, from which users must be protected. However, most of the existing schemes require a large amount of network bandwidth resources and cannot ensure the receiver’s anonymity. To solve these shortcomings, we construct a broadcast signcryption scheme supporting equality test based on certificateless cryptosystem. The scheme employs a symmetric encryption algorithm to improve encryption and transmission efficiency; The Lagrange interpolation theorem is used to encrypt the user’s identity to ensure the privacy preservation of terminal devices; And a trusted third party is used to eliminate duplicated ciphertext for identical messages using an equality test, resulting in efficient network bandwidth utilization. Experimental analysis shows that our work has greater advantages in the field of practical broadcast services.