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Secure Vehicular Communication Systems: Implementation, Performance, and Research Challenges
Vehicular Communication (VC) systems are on the verge of practical
deployment. Nonetheless, their security and privacy protection is one of the
problems that have been addressed only recently. In order to show the
feasibility of secure VC, certain implementations are required. In [1] we
discuss the design of a VC security system that has emerged as a result of the
European SeVeCom project. In this second paper, we discuss various issues
related to the implementation and deployment aspects of secure VC systems.
Moreover, we provide an outlook on open security research issues that will
arise as VC systems develop from today's simple prototypes to full-fledged
systems
RHyTHM: A Randomized Hybrid Scheme To Hide in the Mobile Crowd
Any on-demand pseudonym acquisition strategy is problematic should the
connectivity to the credential management infrastructure be intermittent. If a
vehicle runs out of pseudonyms with no connectivity to refill its pseudonym
pool, one solution is the on-the-fly generation of pseudonyms, e.g., leveraging
anonymous authentication. However, such a vehicle would stand out in the crowd:
one can simply distinguish pseudonyms, thus signed messages, based on the
pseudonym issuer signature, link them and track the vehicle. To address this
challenge, we propose a randomized hybrid scheme, RHyTHM, to enable vehicles to
remain operational when disconnected without compromising privacy: vehicles
with valid pseudonyms help others to enhance their privacy by randomly joining
them in using on-the-fly self-certified pseudonyms along with aligned
lifetimes. This way, the privacy of disconnected users is enhanced with a
reasonable computational overhead.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC),
November 27-29, 2017, Torino, Ital
Secure Position-Based Routing for VANETs
Vehicular communication (VC) systems have the potential to improve road safety and driving comfort. Nevertheless, securing the operation is a prerequisite for deployment. So far, the security of VC applications has mostly drawn the attention of research efforts, while comprehensive solutions to protect the network operation have not been developed. In this paper, we address this problem: we provide a scheme that secures geographic position-based routing, which has been widely accepted as the appropriate one for VC. Moreover, we focus on the scheme currently chosen and evaluated in the Car2Car Communication Consortium (C2C-CC). We integrate security mechanisms to protect the position-based routing functionality and services (beaconing, multi-hop forwarding, and geo-location discovery), and enhance the network robustness. We propose defense mechanisms, relying both on cryptographic primitives, and plausibility checks mitigating false position injection. Our implementation and initial measurements show that the security overhead is low and the proposed scheme deployable
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