Temporal Anonymity in the AMS Scenario Without a TTP

Smart meters provide fine-grained electricity consumption reporting to electricity providers. This constitutes an invasive factor into the privacy of the consumers, which has raised many privacy concerns. Although billing requires attributable consumption reporting, consumption reporting for operational monitoring and control measures can be non-attributable. However, the privacy-preserving AMS schemes in the literature tend to address these two categories disjointly -- possibly due to their somewhat contradictory characteristics. In this paper, we propose an efficient two-party privacy-preserving cryptographic scheme that addresses operational control measures and billing jointly. It is computationally efficient as it is based on symmetric cryptographic primitives. No online trusted third party (TTP) is required.