Followups of GCDC

With the Team AnnieWay from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Winning the first Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge (GCDC), Jongh's open source 802.11p Linux driver and the FAST protocol stack were proven to be working in at least the scenarios of GCDC.

There is a article (in Dutch) on the GCDC from university Twente worth to read.

More readings:
- Vehicle to Vehicle Communication Basis for Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge
- Can Cars Talk with Each Other?

IEEE 802.11p (WAVE) gains public attention on its sucurity issue

Is it be easy to hack a car? Will it be easier to hack a highway with IEEE 802.11p?

Reported by COMPUTERWORLD, the emerging IEEE 802.11p technology could become the weak point for the highway safety and toll collection system that working on top of it. Rob Havelt, director of penetration testing at security vendor Trustwave's SpiderLabs, pointed out the threats faced by the emerging Car2Car communication technologies in his briefings at Black Hat DC.

This is not the first time that the security issues of Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) or system alike are discussed. Actually, along with the academia research on Car2Car communication, security has been always studied, e.g. SEVECOM project. However, a perfect security solution for Car2Car is very hard to achieve, if it really exists.

Particularly interesting, the experts of the Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge (GCDC) have developed the Linux driver module that can easily turn the COTS WiFi radio into IEEE 802.11p complying ITS transceiver on 5.9 GHz ITS band.