Improving Unlinkability in C-ITS: A Methodology For Optimal Obfuscation
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Contributors
Abstract
In this paper, we develop a new methodology to provide high assurance about privacy in Cooperative Intelli gent Transport Systems (C-ITS). Our focus lies on vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications enabled by Cooperative Awareness Basic Service. Our research motivation is developed based on the analysis of unlinkability provision methods indicating a lack of such methods. To address this, we propose a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to express unlinkability for the situation where two vehicles are communicating with a Roadside Unit (RSU) using Cooperative Awareness Messages (CAMs). Our HMM has labeled states specifying distinct origins of the CAMs observable by a passive attacker. We then establish that high assurance about the degree of uncertainty (e.g.. entropy) about labeled states can be obtained for the attacker under the assumption that he knows actual positions of the vehicles (e.g.. hidden states in HMM). We further demonstrate how unlinkability can be increased in C-ITS: we propose a joint probability distribution that both drivers must use to obfuscate their actual data jointly. This obfuscated data is then encapsulated in their CAMs. Finally, our findings are incorporated into an obfuscation algorithm whose complexity is linear in the number of discrete time steps in the HMM.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | ICISSP 2023 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy |
| Editors | Paolo Mori, Gabriele Lenzini, Steven Furnell |
| Publisher | Science and Technology Publications, Lda |
| Pages | 677-685 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| ISBN (print) | 9789897586248 |
| Publication status | Published - 2023 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
| Externally published | Yes |
Publication series
| Series | International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP) |
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Conference
| Title | 9th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy |
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| Abbreviated title | ICISSP 2023 |
| Conference number | 9 |
| Duration | 22 - 24 February 2023 |
| Website | |
| City | Lisbon |
| Country | Portugal |
External IDs
| ORCID | /0000-0002-0466-562X/work/159607940 |
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Keywords
- Cybersecurity, Entropy, Hidden Markov Model, Obfuscation, Privacy, Unlinkability, V2X