Increasing mix-zone eicacy for pseudonym change in VANETs using cha messages

• Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) are designed to play a key role in the development of future transportation systems. Although cooperative awareness messages provide the required situational awareness for new safety and eciency applications, they also introduce a new aack vector to compromise privacy. The use of ephemeral credentials called pseudonyms for privacy protection was proposed while ensuring the required security properties. In order to prevent an aacker from linking old to new pseudonyms, mix-zones provide a region in which vehicles can covertly change their signing material. In this poster, we extend the idea of mix-zones to mitigate pseudonym linking aacks with a mechanism inspired by cha-based privacy defense techniques for mix-networks. By providing cha trajectories, our system restores the ecacy of mix-zones to compensate for a lack of vehicles available to participate in the mixing procedure. Our simulation results of a realistic trac scenario show that a signicant improvement is possible.

Ämnesord

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Kommunikationssystem (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Communication Systems (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Mobile telecommunication systems

Network security

Defense techniques

Mix networks

Mix zones

Privacy protection

Security properties

Situational awareness

Transportation system

Vehicular Adhoc Networks (VANETs)

Vehicular ad hoc networks

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