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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2006
Steve Tengler, Grosse Pointe Park, MI (US);
Scott Andrews, Los Altos, CA (US);
Ronald Heft, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Steve Tengler, Grosse Pointe Park, MI (US);
Scott Andrews, Los Altos, CA (US);
Ronald Heft, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Nissan Technical Center North America, Inc., Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Abstract
An anonymous vehicular broadcast system that has encrypted links between the roadway infrastructure and the vehicles. The vehicles each have a common private key that is generated from a certification key, provided by a certification authority, and a configuration key that is generated at each power up of the vehicle. The configuration key is not stored in the vehicle so that the vehicle is only stores a portion of the private key.