USENIX Security '13: How Hackers Wirelessly Bicked a Car Immobilizer 🚗

Dismantling Megamos Crypto: Wirelessly Lockpicking a Vehicle Immobilizer

Roel Verdult, Radboud University Nijmegen; Flavio D. Garcia, University of Birmingham; Baris Ege, Radboud University Nijmegen

Due to a recent injunction by the High Court of London this talk cannot cover the technical core of the accepted paper. Instead, it will describe the background and context of the work we did on vehicle immobilizer systems. It puts our study in a broader spectrum of related work that is available in the academic literature. Furthermore, it mentions several alternative immobilizer systems that were introduced years ago by academia and industry which use openly designed and well-studied encryption algorithms like the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).

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