Certificating Vehicle Public Key with Vehicle Attributes A (periodical) Licensing Routine, Against Man-in-the-Middle Attacks and Beyond

Vehicular networks are used to coordinate actions among vehicles in traffic by the use of wireless transceivers. Unfortunately, the wireless communication among vehicles is vulnerable to security threats that may lead to very serious safety hazards. In this work we propose a viable solution for coping with Man-in-the-Middle attacks. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that propose to certify both the public key and out-of-band sense-able attributes to enable mutual authentication of the communicating vehicles. Vehicle owners are bound to preprocess (periodically) a certificate for both a public key and a list of fixed unchangeable attributes of the vehicle.