Research on data security protection strategy in electricity information
acquisition system
Abstract
Revisiting the issues of manipulation and unauthorized disclosure of
traditional electric meter data during transmission, storage, and
sharing, this study explores the use of blockchain technology to
safeguard grid data privacy. Combine blockchain technology with Paillier
homomorphic encryption method to protect and share data privacy; Encrypt
the data directly at the end of the smart meter to prevent the data from
being maliciously eavesdropped; The encrypted power data at the station
is collected by a smart terminal within the station’s vicinity and then
sent to the cloud. During its transmission, the encrypted data undergoes
hashing and is stored across the connection to safeguard against any
unauthorized alterations to the data. To enhance the speed of the
encryption and decryption procedures, the modular exponentiation
operation from the initial algorithm is broken down by employing the
Chinese Remainder Theorem. The test results show that the computing
efficiency of encryption and decryption with different key lengths can
be increased by 50% to 75% on the premise of security, which can meet
the requirements of using ciphertext data directly for dynamic pricing,
electricity settlement, and exception analysis.