A Distributed Blockchain Based PKI (BCPKI) architecture to enhance privacy in VANET

Abstract

Among the important challenges for Vehicular Adhoc Network (VANET) Security and Privacy. Most of the solutions for privacy in vanet are based on pseudonyms. And the pseudonyms are digital certificates with very limited information, valid for a short time, and hide the identity of the vehicle. The pseudonym operations (issuing, changing, and revoking) are centralized by a certification authority. In our paper, we propose a fully distributed management for pseudonyms in VANETs. We use the blockchain technology to perform the different operations related to pseudonyms. Our proposal use two blockchains, one for registering pseudonyms, the second for revoked ones. The vehicles are considered as miners in the blockchain. Our approach makes the vehicles in VANET more autonomous in managing the security, and reduce the exchanged data with a centralized authority (Certificate Authority-CA)