{"title":"Secure Firmware Update and Device Authentication for Smart Inverters using Blockchain and Phyiscally Uncloable Function (PUF)-Embedded Security Module","authors":"Jinchun Choi, Bohyun Ahn, Swathi Pedavalli, Seerin Ahmad, Abigail Villasenor, Taesic Kim","doi":"10.1109/eGRID52793.2021.9662155","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Cybersecurity of inverters has been significantly important as inverters become smarter in cyber-physical environments. However, firmware security of smart inverters against firmware attacks from various attack vectors has been less studied. This paper proposes a secure firmware update and device authentication method using a blockchain-based public key infrastructure (PKI) management system and a physically unclonable function (PUF)-embedded security module in a smart inverter. The proposed method is validated by experiments.","PeriodicalId":198321,"journal":{"name":"2021 6th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGRID)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2021 6th IEEE Workshop on the Electronic Grid (eGRID)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/eGRID52793.2021.9662155","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Cybersecurity of inverters has been significantly important as inverters become smarter in cyber-physical environments. However, firmware security of smart inverters against firmware attacks from various attack vectors has been less studied. This paper proposes a secure firmware update and device authentication method using a blockchain-based public key infrastructure (PKI) management system and a physically unclonable function (PUF)-embedded security module in a smart inverter. The proposed method is validated by experiments.