University of California

Imam Uz Zaman

Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

Ozdal Boyraz

Anthony Bahadir Lopez

A physical layer secret key generation scheme exploiting randomness of the road surface and driving behavior is described herein. A symmetric key generation scheme can be implemented in any existing V2V visible light communication. By analyzing and simulating numerous samples taken from NGSIM vehicle trajectory data, the natural driving behavior and road surface roughness can be exploited as a source of randomness to generate symmetric cryptographic security keys.

Systems and methods for encrypting communication between vehicles

Point Optical Link communication security to help resolve the high resource requirements and lack of a trustworthy source of high randomness of existing communication security solutions is described herein. The scheme includes a novel model and a physical layer symmetric cryptographic key generation technique that focuses on exploiting the physical randomness manifested by the Polarization Mode Dispersion effect. This randomness makes it extremely difficult for an adversary to generate the same cryptographic keys as the communicating parties. 128 bit keys with low final mismatch rates (.ltoreq.10%) can be generated, which could easily be truncated for 64-bit and 32-bit keys if necessary.

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