Dismantling Megamos Crypto: Wirelessly Lockpicking a Vehicle Immobilizer
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 24112458
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- E - Conference contribution
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- Title of conference / published proceedings
- Supplement to the Proceedings of the 22nd USENIX Security Symposium
- First page
- 703
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- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- This paper reveals several cryptographic weaknesses in the Megamos Crypto automotive immobilizer transponder, which was used by more than 25 car makers. These flaws allow an adversary to clone the transponder.
The paper was published at a top-tier venue (AR=15.9\%) and led to several invited talks. The work received extensive media coverage including the front page of The Guardian and The Independent plus items in BBC News, Nature, NBC news, CNN, Bloomberg, and The Telegraph among many others. This work also led to several collaborative projects with Jaguar Land Rover including the direct funding of a PhD student.
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- Non-English
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