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Safety and Privacy in Vehicular Communications

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Privacy in Location-Based Applications

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Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) will improve traffic safety and efficiency provided that car-to-car communication stays trustworthy. Therefore, it is crucial to ensure that the information conveyed by vehicle-generated messages is reliable. A sensible option is to request that the content of a message originated by a certain vehicle be endorsed by nearby peer vehicles. However, neither message generation nor message endorsement should entail any privacy loss on the part of vehicles co-operating in it. This chapter surveys the available solutions to this security-privacy tension and analyzes their limitations. A new privacy-preserving system is sketched which guarantees message authentication through both a priori and a posteriori countermeasures.

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  1. UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Dept. of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Av. Països Catalans 26, E-43007, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain

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Domingo-Ferrer, J., Wu, Q. (2009). Safety and Privacy in Vehicular Communications. In: Bettini, C., Jajodia, S., Samarati, P., Wang, X.S. (eds) Privacy in Location-Based Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5599. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03511-1_8

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