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Research on vehicular networking (V2X) security has produced a range of securitymechanisms and protocols tailored for this domain, addressing both security and privacy. Typically, the security analysis of these proposals has largely been informal. However, formal analysis can be used to expose flaws and ultimately provide a higher level of assurance in the protocols. This paper focusses on the formal analysis of a particular element of security mechanisms for V2X found in many proposals, that is the revocation of malicious or misbehaving vehicles from the V2X system by invalidating their credentials. This revocation needs to be performed in an unlinkable way for vehicle privacy even in the context of vehicles regularly changing their pseudonyms. The Rewire scheme by Förster et al. and its subschemes Plain and R-token aim to solve this challenge by means of cryptographic solutions and trusted hardware. Formal analysis using the Tamarin prover identifies two flaws: one previously reported in the lierature concerned with functional correctness of the protocol, and one previously unknown flaw concerning an authentication property of the R-token scheme. In response to these flaws we propose Obscure Token (O-token), an extension of Rewire to enable revocation in a privacy preserving manner. Our approach addresses the functional and authentication properties by introducing an additional key-pair, which offers a stronger and verifiable guarantee of successful revocation of vehicles without resolving the long-term identity. Moreover O-token is the first V2X revocation protocol to be co-designed with a formal model.
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Jorden Whitefield is funded by EPSRC iCASE studentship 15220193 through Thales UK. Thanks to Cas Cremers for detailed discussions on Tamarin. Thanks also to François Dupressoir and Adrian Waller for detailed feedback, and to the reviewers for their constructive comments.
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Whitefield, J. et al. (2017). Formal Analysis of V2X Revocation Protocols. In: Livraga, G., Mitchell, C. (eds) Security and Trust Management. STM 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10547. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68063-7_10
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