BlockChain: A distributed solution to automotive security and privacy
This addresses security and privacy issues for smart vehicle users and stakeholders, but it is incremental as it applies an existing technology (blockchain) to a new domain.
The paper tackles security and privacy threats in smart vehicles, such as location tracking and remote hijacking, by proposing a blockchain-based architecture to protect user privacy and enhance security, with qualitative arguments for resilience against common attacks.
Interconnected smart vehicles offer a range of sophisticated services that benefit the vehicle owners, transport authorities, car manufacturers and other service providers. This potentially exposes smart vehicles to a range of security and privacy threats such as location tracking or remote hijacking of the vehicle. In this article, we argue that BlockChain (BC), a disruptive technology that has found many applications from cryptocurrencies to smart contracts, is a potential solution to these challenges. We propose a BC-based architecture to protect the privacy of the users and to increase the security of the vehicular ecosystem. Wireless remote software updates and other emerging services such as dynamic vehicle insurance fees, are used to illustrate the efficacy of the proposed security architecture. We also qualitatively argue the resilience of the architecture against common security attacks.