Cyber-Security for the Controller Area Network (CAN) Communication Protocol
Chung-Wei Lin, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Citation
Chung-Wei Lin, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. "Cyber-Security for the Controller Area Network (CAN) Communication Protocol". Poster, MuSyC/GSRC Joint Review 2012, Clark Kerr Campus, 15, October, 2012.

Abstract
We propose a security mechanism to help prevent cyber-attacks (masquerade and replay) on Controller Area Network (CAN) based in-vehicle architectures. We focus on CAN as it will likely continue being significantly used in upcoming in-vehicle architectures. The CAN protocol contains no direct support for secure communications. Retrofitting the protocol with security mechanisms poses several challenges given the very limited data rates available (e.g., 500kbps) as bus utilization may increase. In this paper, we focus on a security mechanism which keeps the bus utilization as low as possible. Through our experimental results, we show that our security mechanism can achieve high security levels while keeping communication overheads (e.g., bus load and message latency) at reasonable levels.

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  MuSyC/GSRC Joint Review 2012, Clark Kerr Campus, 15,
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  Chung-Wei Lin, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli.
  "Cyber-Security for the Controller Area Network (CAN)
  Communication Protocol". Poster,  MuSyC/GSRC Joint
  Review 2012, Clark Kerr Campus, 15, October, 2012.

• BibTeX

  @poster{LinSangiovanniVincentelli12_CyberSecurityForControllerAreaNetworkCANCommunication,
      author = {Chung-Wei Lin and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli},
      title = {Cyber-Security for the Controller Area Network
                (CAN) Communication Protocol},
      day = {15},
      month = {October},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {We propose a security mechanism to help prevent
                cyber-attacks (masquerade and replay) on
                Controller Area Network (CAN) based in-vehicle
                architectures. We focus on CAN as it will likely
                continue being significantly used in upcoming
                in-vehicle architectures. The CAN protocol
                contains no direct support for secure
                communications. Retrofitting the protocol with
                security mechanisms poses several challenges given
                the very limited data rates available (e.g.,
                500kbps) as bus utilization may increase. In this
                paper, we focus on a security mechanism which
                keeps the bus utilization as low as possible.
                Through our experimental results, we show that our
                security mechanism can achieve high security
                levels while keeping communication overheads
                (e.g., bus load and message latency) at reasonable
                levels.},
      URL = {http://www.musyc.org/pubs/419.html}
  }
  

Posted by Chung-Wei Lin on 25 Sep 2012.