Distributed Attribute-Based Signature with Attribute Dynamic Update for Smart Grid

Smart grid is gaining more and more attention as one of the typical applications of Internet of Things. However, in a distributed environment, how to guarantee the privacy of users in electricity trading while ensuring the efficiency of the transactions is one of the urgent issues to be solved. In this article, we propose a distributed attribute-based signature (DABS) scheme for distributed electricity trading, which can support users' free choice of trade objects without revealing their real identities. We construct a signature generation and verification method by taking advantage of the open and hard-to-tamper properties of blockchain to achieve signature verifiability independent of dynamic changes in attributes.To improve the update efficiency, we propose an improved scheme that enables the update complexity to be reduced from $O(n)$ to $O(\log n)$ , where $n$ is the number of users. Finally, performance analysis and simulation experiments demonstrate the security and practicality of the DABS.