S-GoSV: Framework for Generating Secure IEC 61850 GOOSE and Sample Value Messages

Shaik Mullapathi Farooq, S.M. Suhail Hussain and Taha Selim Ustun
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Shaik Mullapathi Farooq: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, YSR Engineering College, Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa 516360, Andhra Pradesh, India
S.M. Suhail Hussain: Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, AIST (FREA), Koriyama 963-0215, Japan
Taha Selim Ustun: Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, AIST (FREA), Koriyama 963-0215, Japan

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 13, 1-13

Abstract: Standardized communication plays an important role in substation automation system (SAS). IEC 61850 is a de-facto standard in SAS. It facilitates smooth communication between different devices located in the substation by achieving interoperability. Generic Object-Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) and Sample Value (SV) messages developed according to IEC 61850 enable efficient monitoring and operation control of SAS. IEC 61850 is very popular due to its flexible and robust modeling. As the number of critical infrastructures that employed IEC 61850 increases, it is important to study cybersecurity aspects as well. To this end, this paper develops a software framework, S-GoSV (Secure GOOSE and SV), that generates custom GOOSE and Sample Value messages. Furthermore, security features are added to protect them from different security attacks within a substation. IEC 62351-6 specifies digital signatures to achieve node authentication and messages integrity. Therefore, S-GoSV implements RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 digital signature algorithm based on RFC 2313. Performance studies show that digital signature algorithms based on RSA signing and verification take long times and do not conform to timing requirements stipulated by IEC 61850 for power system communication. To address this, Message Authentication Code (MAC) based digital signature algorithm, Keyed Hash-Message Authentication Code- Secure Hash Algorithm (HMAC-SHA256), is additionally implemented in S-GoSV framework for securing GOOSE messages.

Keywords: security in Substation communication system; Generic Object-Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE); Sample Values; IEC 62351-6 standard (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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