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E-safety vehicle intrusion protected applications

Acronym of the case:

EVITA

Web address of the case:

http://evita-project.org/

Country of the case:

Belgium , France , Germany , Sweden , United Kingdom

security | intelligent car | hardware security module


Posting Date: 26 November 2009
Last Edited Date: 26 November 2009

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Author:

Olaf Henniger (Fraunhofer Institute SIT)Germany
Type of initiative
  • Project or service
Case Abstract

The objective of the EVITA project is to design, verify, and create a prototype of a secure architecture for automotive on-board electronics networks. Thus, EVITA will provide a basis for the secure deployment of electronic safety aids based on vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication.

Description of the case
Domain
eGovernment
Topic
eIdentity and eSecurity
Sector
Communication (infrastructure) | Travel, Transports and Motoring
July 2008 to June 2011
Target Users
Business (industry)
Target Users Description

The intended primary beneficiaries of the EVITA results are car, truck, and motorcycle manufacturers, automotive electronics suppliers, and semi-conductor manufacturers. Also industry consortia such as the Car 2 Car Communication Consortium and other organisations dedicated to electronic car safety aids are intended to benefit from the EVITA results. In a broader sense, by helping to reduce road transport problems, the EVITA results are intended to benefit the society as a whole. Secondary beneficiaries of EVITA results are all industries that have to cope with communication security problems similar to that in the automotive sector. Similarly complex communication networks are embedded in systems such as airplanes, power stations, robots, and house control systems.

Scope
International
Status
Research
Language(s)
English
Policy Context and Legal Framework

EVITA is co-funded by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme for research and technological development.Focussing on on-board network protection, EVITA complements other e-safety related projects that focus on protecting the communication of vehicles with the outside.

Project Size and Implementation
Type of initiative
IT infrastructures and products
Overall Implementation approach
Private sector
Technology choice
Mainly (or only) open standards
Funding source
Public funding EU
Project size
Implementation: €5,000,000-10,000,000
Yearly cost:
€1,000,000-5,000,000
Technology solution

Starting from relevant use cases and security threat scenarios, EVITA specifies security requirements for automotive on-board networks and considers also legal requirements on privacy, data protection, and liability issues. Based on these security requirements and the automotive constraints, EVITA designs a secure on-board architecture and secure on-board communications protocols. The security functions are partitioned between software and hardware. The root of trust is placed in hardware security modules realised as extensions to automotive controllers.

In order to ensure that the identified requirements are satisfied, EVITA models and verifies selected parts of the secure on-board architecture and the communications protocols using model-based verification tools.

For prototyping, FPGA's will be used to extend standard automotive controllers with the functionality of cryptographic coprocessors. The secure on-board network will be deployed inside a lab car demonstrating e-safety applications based on vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication.

Impact, innovation and results
Impact

Specification of a secure automotive on-board hardware/software architecture and secure on-board communications protocols

Track record of sharing

In order tfor the entire automotive industry to benefit from the project results, the secure on-board architecture and communications protocol specifications are published on http://evita-project.org as open specifications. The EVITA project partners liaise with related initiatives in the fields of e-safety and embedded security to achieve multilateral synergies.

Lessons learnt

The project is still in progress. We may document lessons learnt after the end of the project.

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