Privacy in Inter-Vehicular Networks: Why simple pseudonym change is not enough

B. Wiedersheim; Zhendong Ma; Frank Kargl; P. Papadimitratos

doi:10.1109/WONS.2010.5437115

Privacy in Inter-Vehicular Networks: Why simple pseudonym change is not enough

B. Wiedersheim, Zhendong Ma, Frank Kargl, P. Papadimitratos

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Abstract

Inter-vehicle communication (IVC) systems disclose rich location information about vehicles. State-of-the-art security architectures are aware of the problem and provide privacy enhancing mechanisms, notably pseudonymous authentication. However, the granularity and the amount of location information IVC protocols divulge, enable an adversary that eavesdrops all traffic throughout an area, to reconstruct long traces of the whereabouts of the majority of vehicles within the same area. Our analysis in this paper confirms the existence of this kind of threat. As a result, it is questionable if strong location privacy is achievable in IVC systems against a powerful adversary.

Original language	Undefined
Title of host publication	The Seventh International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2010)
Place of Publication	Los Alamitos
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	176-183
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-6059-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WONS.2010.5437115
Publication status	Published - Feb 2010
Event	7th International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services, WONS 2010 - Hotel Larix, Kranska Gora, Slovenia Duration: 3 Feb 2010 → 5 Feb 2010 Conference number: 7

Publication series

Name
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society Press

Conference

Conference	7th International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services, WONS 2010
Abbreviated title	WONS
Country/Territory	Slovenia
City	Kranska Gora
Period	3/02/10 → 5/02/10

Keywords

METIS-275612
IR-72418
IVC protocols
state-of-the-art security architectures
EWI-18153
privacy enhancing mechanisms
location information
inter-vehicle communication systems
SCS-Cybersecurity
pseudonymous authentication

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10.1109/WONS.2010.5437115

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Wiedersheim, B, Ma, Z, Kargl, F & Papadimitratos, P 2010, Privacy in Inter-Vehicular Networks: Why simple pseudonym change is not enough. in The Seventh International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2010)., 10.1109/WONS.2010.5437115, IEEE, Los Alamitos, pp. 176-183, 7th International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services, WONS 2010, Kranska Gora, Slovenia, 3/02/10. https://doi.org/10.1109/WONS.2010.5437115

Privacy in Inter-Vehicular Networks: Why simple pseudonym change is not enough. / Wiedersheim, B.; Ma, Zhendong; Kargl, Frank et al.

The Seventh International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2010). Los Alamitos : IEEE, 2010. p. 176-183 10.1109/WONS.2010.5437115.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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