BlockChain: A Distributed Solution to Automotive Security and Privacy
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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 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.
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In smart vehicles, the main problems concern privacy and security.
“Additionally, in this case, the main problems concern privacy and security [51]; in fact, the use of centralised infrastructures poses the alarming issue of data control by a single entity.”
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Some documents in macro-clusters C1 and C2 propose new platforms just at a concept level.
“Some of them propose new platforms just at a concept level [45,51,52,75,77,83,84,88,89,91], some of them present proofs of their concepts [76,79,81], and only three of them present a real implementation based on real blockchains: [78,80,82].”
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The use of centralised infrastructures poses the alarming issue of data control by a single entity.
“Additionally, in this case, the main problems concern privacy and security [51]; in fact, the use of centralised infrastructures poses the alarming issue of data control by a single entity.”
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- Authors
- Dorri, A., Steger, M., Kanhere, S. S., & Jurdak, R.
- Affiliations
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (AU)
- Venue
- IEEE Communications Magazine
- Published
- 2017-12
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 119-125
- ISSN
- 0163-6804 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2605157201
- Cited by
- 807
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 39 · 2024: 67 · 2023: 82 · 2022: 118 · 2021: 143 · 2020: 144 · 2019: 134 · 2018: 60 · 2017: 5 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 174.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- IEEE Communications Magazine (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- UNSWorks (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- UNSWorks (UNSW Sydney) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology in Education and Learning
- Keywords
- blockchain, automotive cybersecurity, privacy preservation, intelligent vehicles, vehicular networks, location tracking, smart contracts, security architecture, attack resilience
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