Benshy Varghese (93617011) <br/><br/>
Secure CAN messages for vehicle safety ECUs 

 - MSC CS 2017-2019 
<br/><br/> Cars sold today are computers on wheels, with dozens of embedded chips running<br/>millions of lines of code. Modern automobiles host more than 80 ECUs,<br/>which contain and implement a total of up to 100 million code lines to control<br/>safety-critical functionality. This fact and the close inter-connectivity<br/>of automotive ECUs open up new possibilities to attack these systems which<br/>impair the safe operation of the vehicle. So it is important to secure the<br/>information exchanged between these ECUs. We divide the ECUs into ve<br/>categories: Powertrain Control unit, Vehicle safety, Comfort, Infotainment,<br/>and Telematics. In Vehicle safety, there comes a need for faster encryption<br/>algorithms as it is mandatory that these algorithms should work accordingly.<br/>The response time from the Air Bag Unit ECU and ABS can't be less than<br/>a particular threshold. Also the messages from these ECUs should be encrypted.<br/>There comes a need for an encryption algorithm that meets the<br/>timing requirements. This project proposes an idea of encrypting the messages,<br/>from the vehicle safety ECU category, with an algorithm that meets<br/>compatible timing requirements. Based on the analysis of various algorithms,<br/>the one with smaller execution time and which is suitable for the CAN frame<br/>is selected for Encryption. CAN interface will be used for message simulation<br/>and CAPL scripting will be used for implementation and verication of Data<br/>Encryption Standard(DES) algorithm. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>ECU 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>CAN<br/>ELECTRONIC CONTROL UNITS<br/>CONTROL AREA NETWORK<br/>DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD