The invention discloses a power industry internet lightweight identity
authentication method based on an
implicit certificate, identity
authentication between equipment and an edge gateway is realized by introducing the
implicit certificate, different from a traditional explicit
certificate, the
implicit certificate does not directly contain a public key of the equipment, and the implicit
certificate does not directly contain the public key of the equipment. The
authentication is completed by embedding
certificate information in the data instead of the data, so that the storage,
verification and transmission expenses of the certificate are remarkably reduced through the design; meanwhile, an authentication mode that the device and the edge gateway mutually verify the identity of each other is adopted, and a challenge-response mechanism is added in the authentication process, that is, the device and the edge gateway ensure the freshness of the message by exchanging challenge values so as to prevent an attacker from replaying an old message. Through
mutual authentication, unauthorized equipment can be prevented from pretending to be a legal node, so that the communication security is improved, and a challenge-response mechanism can
resist a
replay attack, so that the communication security is further improved.