A Distributed Pseudonym Management Scheme in VANETs

Security and privacy have been important issues in VANETs. Anonymity is an effective way to achieve privacy protection, and it sometimes requires to be disclosed for determining traffic liability. In most pseudonym schemes, an authority is aware of a vehicle's secret, and its compromise will re...

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Main Authors: Xiaoling Zhu, Yang Lu, Benhong Zhang, Zhengfeng Hou
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-04-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/615906
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description Security and privacy have been important issues in VANETs. Anonymity is an effective way to achieve privacy protection, and it sometimes requires to be disclosed for determining traffic liability. In most pseudonym schemes, an authority is aware of a vehicle's secret, and its compromise will result in the leakage of a large amount of privacy information. So, we propose a distributed traceable pseudonym management scheme in VANETs. In the scheme, a blind signature method is adopted to achieve strict separation of issuance and tracking. The distributed tracking protocol is proposed to enhance the robustness for tracking, which is based on the improved scheme for shared generation of RSA keys. An efficient pseudonymous authentication mechanism is proposed to reduce the communication overhead. Compared with other related proposals, our scheme is unforgeability, especially against authority forge attacks, and has better robustness. Moreover, the performance analysis shows that it is efficient in VANETs.
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spelling doaj-art-ec4248f86e5741f287dba42a3be7a01f2025-08-20T02:21:49ZengWileyInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772013-04-01910.1155/2013/615906A Distributed Pseudonym Management Scheme in VANETsXiaoling Zhu0Yang Lu1Benhong Zhang2Zhengfeng Hou3 School of Computer and Information, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China The Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Mine IoT and Mine Safety Supervisory Control, Hefei 230088, China School of Computer and Information, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China School of Computer and Information, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, ChinaSecurity and privacy have been important issues in VANETs. Anonymity is an effective way to achieve privacy protection, and it sometimes requires to be disclosed for determining traffic liability. In most pseudonym schemes, an authority is aware of a vehicle's secret, and its compromise will result in the leakage of a large amount of privacy information. So, we propose a distributed traceable pseudonym management scheme in VANETs. In the scheme, a blind signature method is adopted to achieve strict separation of issuance and tracking. The distributed tracking protocol is proposed to enhance the robustness for tracking, which is based on the improved scheme for shared generation of RSA keys. An efficient pseudonymous authentication mechanism is proposed to reduce the communication overhead. Compared with other related proposals, our scheme is unforgeability, especially against authority forge attacks, and has better robustness. Moreover, the performance analysis shows that it is efficient in VANETs.https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/615906
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