Authors:
Vanesa Daza
and
Xavier Salleras
Affiliation:
Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, CYBERCAT - Center for Cybersecurity Research of Catalonia and Spain
Keyword(s):
Remote Keyless Entry, Wireless Security, Jamming-and-Replay Attack, Relay Attack.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Access Control
;
Data Engineering
;
Databases and Data Security
;
Information and Systems Security
;
Internet Technology
;
Network Security
;
Security Protocols
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Wireless Network Security
Abstract:
Since Remote Keyless Entry (RKE) systems started to be widely used, several vulnerabilities in their protocols have been found. Attacks such as jamming-and-replay attacks and relay attacks are still effective against most recent RKE systems (Ibrahim et al., 2018), even when many secure schemes have been designed. Although they are interesting from a theoretical point of view, the complexity of these solutions is excessive to implement them into a fob (Karani et al., 2016). This paper presents a lightweight and general solution based on a one message protocol, which guarantees the integrity and validity of the authentication in RKE systems, protecting the communication against the well-known jamming-and-replay and relay attacks, without using complex cryptographic schemes. Moreover, we also adapt our protocol for passive RKE (PRKE) systems. Our solution also includes a novel frequency-hopping-based approach which mitigates deny-of-service attacks. Finally, a prototype has been impleme
nted using non-expensive hardware. Obtained results assure scalability, effectiveness and robustness.
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