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The software running on electronic devices is regularly updated, these days. A vehicle consists of many such devices, but is operated in a completely different manner than consumer devices. Update operations are safety critical in the automotive domain. Thus, they demand for a very well secured process. We propose an on-board security architecture which facilitates such update processes by combining hardware and software modules. In this paper, we present a protocol to show how this security architecture is employed in order to achieve secure firmware updates for automotive control units.
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Idrees, M.S., Schweppe, H., Roudier, Y., Wolf, M., Scheuermann, D., Henniger, O. (2011). Secure Automotive On-Board Protocols: A Case of Over-the-Air Firmware Updates. In: Strang, T., Festag, A., Vinel, A., Mehmood, R., Rico Garcia, C., Röckl, M. (eds) Communication Technologies for Vehicles. Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6596. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19786-4_20
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