Paper 2025/755 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2025/755 ↗

A Note on "CB-DA: Lightweight and Escrow-Free Certificate-Based Data Aggregation for Smart Grid"

Zhengjun Cao
Lihua Liu
Abstract

We show that the data aggregation scheme [IEEE TDSC, 2023, 20(3), 2011-2024] is flawed, because the signer only signs a part of data, not the whole data. An adversary can replace the unsigned component to cheat the verifier. To frustrate this attack, all components of the target data should be concatenated together and then be hashed and signed, so as to ensure that the signature verification can prove the whole message integrity.

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Attacks and cryptanalysis
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2025-04-28: last updated
2025-04-28: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2025/755
License
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2025/755,
      author = {Zhengjun Cao and Lihua Liu},
      title = {A Note on "CB-DA: Lightweight and Escrow-Free Certificate-Based Data Aggregation for Smart Grid"},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2025/755},
      year = {2025},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/755}
}
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