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Securing Vehicle’s Electronic Control Units

Authors:
Kevin Daimi
Mustafa Saed
Scott Bone
John Robb

Keywords: Security Architecture; Security Protocols; Security Requirements

Abstract:
Electronic Control Units (ECUs) are essential for controlling many functions and systems in current and future vehicles. Modern vehicles incorporate over seventy ECUs. Those ECUs are vulnerable to security attacks. A number of these attacks can be fatal and can result in casualties. Undoubtedly, there is a critical need for protecting the ECUs infrastructure. This paper proposes an approach to secure vehicle’s ECUs based on a grouping principle. Four groups are introduced. Each group is controlled by a Master ECU, and the Master ECUs are controlled by a Super Master ECU. Public key cryptology is adopted. Furthermore, the possibility of applying symmetric key cryptology, Elliptic Curve Cryptology (ECC), and One-Time Pad are investigated.

Pages: 29 to 34

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: June 26, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4006

ISBN: 978-1-61208-482-4

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from June 26, 2016 to June 30, 2016