Investigation of Cryptography Algorithms used for Security and Privacy Protection in Smart Grid

Computer information has taken over many aspects of everyday life. One of those aspects has been smart grids which have evolved into a more complex system. However, with the advantages that smart grids come with, disadvantages concerning the security of those smart grids. Concerns regarding the compromise of the system have been issues of debate in the recent years. With that said, there are several encryption algorithms that are commonly used to secure and cipher the sensitive data from being stolen or altered. This work presents a survey and a comparison between the most well-known algorithms to help ensure security for those systems. The algorithms that were selected for this work are AES, DES, TDES, E-DES, RSA and BLOWFISH. The comparison is set between to find the effectiveness, key size, complexity and time required between those algorithms. The performance evaluation of these algorithms is evaluated using MATLAB.