Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

2-2019

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce an attribute-based framework to achieve secure communications in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), which enjoys several advantageous features. The proposed framework employs attribute-based signature (ABS) to achieve message authentication and integrity and protect vehicle privacy, which greatly mitigates the overhead caused by pseudonym/private key change or update in the existing solutions for VANETs based on symmetric key, asymmetric key, and identity-based cryptography and group signature. In addition, we extend a standard ABS scheme with traceability and revocation mechanisms and seamlessly integrate them into the proposed framework to support vehicle traceability and revocation by a trusted authority, and thus, the resulting scheme for vehicular communications does not suffer from the anonymity misuse issue, which has been a challenge for anonymous credential-based vehicular protocols. Finally, we implement the proposed ABS scheme using a rapid prototyping tool called Charm to evaluate its performance.

Discipline

Information Security

Research Areas

Cybersecurity

Publication

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volume

27

Issue

2

First Page

721

Last Page

733

ISSN

1063-6692

Identifier

10.1109/TNET.2019.2894625

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) / Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2019.2894625

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