Title :
Comments on “Proving Reliability of Anonymous Information in VANETs” by Kounga
Author :
Chen, Liqun ; Ng, Siaw-Lynn
Author_Institution :
Hewlett-Packard Labs., Bristol, UK
fDate :
3/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Three vehicle-to-vehicle communication schemes by Kounga (??Proving reliability of anonymous information in VANETs,?? IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 58, no. 6, pp. 2977-2989, Jul. 2009) were recently published to address the issues of certificate management, scalability, and privacy. We present a number of attacks on one of the schemes. Our result shows that, contrary to what is claimed, this scheme does not provide the following four security features: (1) authenticity of a message; (2) privacy of drivers and vehicles; (3) reliability of distributed information; and (4) revocation of illegitimate vehicles.
Keywords :
ad hoc networks; message authentication; mobile radio; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication security; VANET; anonymous information reliability; certificate management; drivers privacy; illegitimate vehicles revocation; message authenticity; vehicle-to-vehicle communication schemes; vehicles privacy; Anonymity; authentication; vehicular communication;
Journal_Title :
Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TVT.2009.2038785
