Visible to the public Lightweight Authentication for Low-End Control Units with Hardware Based Individual Keys

TitleLightweight Authentication for Low-End Control Units with Hardware Based Individual Keys
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2019
AuthorsBauer, Sergei, Brunner, Martin, Schartner, Peter
Conference Name2019 Third IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC)
Keywordsautomobiles, automotive applications, Automotive Device Authentication, Automotive engineering, autonomous driving, Ciphers, firmware, Hardware, hardware based individual keys, lightweight authentication, Lightweight Cipher, Lightweight Ciphers, lightweight cryptography, low-end control units, message authentication, mobile robots, Network security, private key cryptography, pubcrawl, Resiliency, robotic applications, robots, Scalability, secret keys, security issues, telecommunication security
Abstract

In autonomous driving, security issues from robotic and automotive applications are converging toward each other. A novel approach for deriving secret keys using a lightweight cipher in the firmware of low-end control units is introduced. By evaluating the method on a typical low-end automotive platform, we demonstrate the reusability of the cipher for message authentication. The proposed solution counteracts a known security issue in the robotics and automotive domain.

DOI10.1109/IRC.2019.00082
Citation Keybauer_lightweight_2019