Trustworthy privacy-preserving car-generated announcements in vehicular ad hoc networks

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) allow vehicle-to-vehicle communication and, in particular, vehicle-generated announcements. Provided that the trustworthiness of such announcements can be guaranteed, they can greatly increase the safety of driving. A new system for vehicle-generated announcements...

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Autores: Daza, Vanesa, Domingo-Ferrer, Josep, Sebe, Francesc, Viejo, Alexandre
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Data de publicação:2008
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositório:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/45566
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/45566
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2008.2002581
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Vehicular communications
Security
Privacy
Secret sharing
Threshold signatures
Protocol design
Descrição
Resumo:Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) allow vehicle-to-vehicle communication and, in particular, vehicle-generated announcements. Provided that the trustworthiness of such announcements can be guaranteed, they can greatly increase the safety of driving. A new system for vehicle-generated announcements is presented that is secure against external and internal attackers attempting to send fake messages. Internal attacks are thwarted by using an endorsement mechanism based on threshold signatures. Our system outperforms previous proposals in message length and computational cost. Three different privacy-preserving variants of the system are also described to ensure that vehicles volunteering to generate and/or endorse trustworthy announcements do not have to sacrifice their privacy.