Efficient communication scheme with confidentiality and privacy for vehicular networks

  • Authors:
  • Hu Xiong;Guobin Zhu;Zhong Chen;Fagen Li

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, PR China and Key Lab of Network Security and Cryptology, Fujian Normal University, Fu ...;School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, PR China;School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, PR China;School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, PR China

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Electrical Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Privacy and security issues should be paid more attention before vehicular networks are deployed and applied in practice. This paper introduces an efficient privacy-preserving protocol with confidentiality for Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) based on group signcryption. The proposed protocol featured with the following characteristics: Firstly, it offers conditional anonymous authentication: a message issuer can authenticate itself anonymously on behalf of a group of potential signers while only a trusted authority can reveal the true identity of a message sender. Secondly, it provides confidential: the secrecy of the communication content can be protected. Thirdly, it is efficient: it achieves low storage requirements, fast message verification and cost-effective identity tracking in case of a dispute.