A smart grid data sharing scheme supporting policy update and traceability

Abstract To address the problems of centralized attribute authority, inefficient encryption and invalid access control strategy in the data sharing scheme based on attribute-based encryption technology, a smart grid data sharing scheme that supports policy update and traceability is proposed. The sm...

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Main Authors: Xiaodong Yang, Ke Yao, Songyu Li, Xiaoni Du, Caifen Wang
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Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-10704-9
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description Abstract To address the problems of centralized attribute authority, inefficient encryption and invalid access control strategy in the data sharing scheme based on attribute-based encryption technology, a smart grid data sharing scheme that supports policy update and traceability is proposed. The smart contract of the blockchain is used to generate the user’s key, which does not require a centralized attribute authority. Combined with attribute-based encryption and symmetric encryption technology, the confidentiality of smart grid data is protected and flexible data access control is achieved. In addition, online/offline encryption and outsourced computing technologies complete most of the computing tasks in the offline stage or cloud server, which greatly reduces the computing burden of data owners and data access users. By introducing the access control policy update mechanism, the data owner can flexibly modify the key ciphertext stored in the cloud server. Finally, the analysis results show that this scheme can protect the privacy of smart grid data, verify the integrity of smart grid data, resist collusion attacks and track the identity of malicious users who leak private keys, and its efficiency is better than similar data sharing schemes.
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spelling doaj-art-1c17affd11784f4a8b82be36322dfeb32025-08-20T03:05:25ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222025-07-0115111110.1038/s41598-025-10704-9A smart grid data sharing scheme supporting policy update and traceabilityXiaodong Yang0Ke Yao1Songyu Li2Xiaoni Du3Caifen Wang4College of Computer Science and Engineer, Northwest Normal UniversityCollege of Computer Science and Engineer, Northwest Normal UniversityCollege of Computer Science and Engineer, Northwest Normal UniversityCollege of Mathematics and Statistics, Northwest Normal UniversityCollege of Big Data and Internet, Shenzhen Technology UniversityAbstract To address the problems of centralized attribute authority, inefficient encryption and invalid access control strategy in the data sharing scheme based on attribute-based encryption technology, a smart grid data sharing scheme that supports policy update and traceability is proposed. The smart contract of the blockchain is used to generate the user’s key, which does not require a centralized attribute authority. Combined with attribute-based encryption and symmetric encryption technology, the confidentiality of smart grid data is protected and flexible data access control is achieved. In addition, online/offline encryption and outsourced computing technologies complete most of the computing tasks in the offline stage or cloud server, which greatly reduces the computing burden of data owners and data access users. By introducing the access control policy update mechanism, the data owner can flexibly modify the key ciphertext stored in the cloud server. Finally, the analysis results show that this scheme can protect the privacy of smart grid data, verify the integrity of smart grid data, resist collusion attacks and track the identity of malicious users who leak private keys, and its efficiency is better than similar data sharing schemes.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-10704-9Smart gridData sharingBlockchainAttribute-based encryptionOnline/offline
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A smart grid data sharing scheme supporting policy update and traceability
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Blockchain
Attribute-based encryption
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title A smart grid data sharing scheme supporting policy update and traceability
title_full A smart grid data sharing scheme supporting policy update and traceability
title_fullStr A smart grid data sharing scheme supporting policy update and traceability
title_full_unstemmed A smart grid data sharing scheme supporting policy update and traceability
title_short A smart grid data sharing scheme supporting policy update and traceability
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topic Smart grid
Data sharing
Blockchain
Attribute-based encryption
Online/offline
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-10704-9
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