Secure automotive on-board protocols: a case of over-the-air firmware updates

  • Authors:
  • Muhammad Sabir Idrees;Hendrik Schweppe;Yves Roudier;Marko Wolf;Dirk Scheuermann;Olaf Henniger

  • Affiliations:
  • EURECOM;EURECOM;EURECOM;Escrypt GmbH;Fraunhofer SIT;Fraunhofer SIT

  • Venue:
  • Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Communication technologies for vehicles
  • Year:
  • 2011

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The software running on electronic devices is regularly updated, these days. A vehicle consists of many such devices, but is operated in a completely different manner than consumer devices. Update operations are safety critical in the automotive domain. Thus, they demand for a very well secured process. We propose an on-board security architecture which facilitates such update processes by combining hardware and software modules. In this paper, we present a protocol to show how this security architecture is employed in order to achieve secure firmware updates for automotive control units.