Project Info

*Protecting Your Car From Relay Theft

Dejun Yang
djyang@mines.edu
Adopted by many car companies, such as Tesla, Lincoln, and BMW, phone-as-a-key technology allows users to unlock car doors without them reaching their pockets for keys as long as their smartphones are in vicinity of the car. However, it has been known that this technology is vulnerable to signal-relay attacks, e.g. this video (https://youtu.be/hj3ZRv9cMBw). Car thieves can relay the key signals and trick the car into thinking the smartphone is physically present. The goal of this project is to develop a device fingerprint-based technology to defend against relay attacks.

More Information:

Grand Challenge: Secure cyberspace
K. Joo, W. Choi, and D. H. Lee, “Hold the door! Fingerprinting your car key to prevent keyless entry car theft,” in Proc. Netw. Distrib. Syst. Secur. Symp., 2020, pp. 1–37. J. Huang, W. Albazrqaoe, and G. Xing, "BlueID: A practical system for bluetooth device identification," IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), pp. 2849-2857, 2014.

Primary Contacts:

Dejun Yang

Student Preparation

Qualifications

Self-motivated Good programming skills Knowing or be willing to learn signal processing techniques

TIME COMMITMENT (HRS/WK)

5

SKILLS/TECHNIQUES GAINED

Basic signal processing techniques Machine learning techniques How to conduct research experiments

MENTORING PLAN

Monthly or weekly meeting

PREFERRED STUDENT STATUS

Sophomore
Junior
Senior
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