AES RSA-SM2 Algorithm against Man-in-the-Middle Attack in IEC 60870-5-104 Protocol

Abstract

The IEC60870-5-104 protocol lacks an integrated authentication mechanism during plaintext transmission, and is vulnerable to security threats, monitoring, tampering, or cutting off communication connections. In order to verify the security problems of 104 protocol, the 104 master-slave communication implemented DoS attacks, ARP spoofing and Ettercap packet filtering and other man-in-the-middle attacks. DoS attacks may damage the network functions of the 104 communication host, resulting in communication interruption. ARP spoofing damaged the data privacy of the 104 protocol, and Ettercap packet filtering cut off the communication connection between the master and the slave. In order to resist the man-in-the-middle attack, the AES and RSA hybrid encryption signature algorithm and the national secret SM2 elliptic curve algorithm are proposed. AES and RSA hybrid encryption increases the security strength of communication data and realizes identity authentication. The digital signature implemented by the SM2 algorithm can realize identity verification, ensure that the data has not been tampered with, and can ensure the integrity of the data. Both of them improve the communication security of the 104 protocol.