Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Aaron Bonnell-Kangas

Eugene Karpinsky

Farhan Ehsan

Margherita Trupiano

A system and method for performing a secure operation on a vehicle, such as to re-key a vehicle, include transmitting, from a computing device such as a service tool, a service tool request to an access management server over a wide area network, receiving over the wide area network, at the service tool, a secure service response from the access management server upon a verification of the service tool request, the secure service response containing a secure payload, and transmitting the secure payload to secure controller of a specific vehicle being serviced over a vehicle communication interface regardless of whether the service tool is connected to the wide area network.

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Detroit, MI, United States of America

Aaron Bonnell-Kangas