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Re:Hacker shows he can locate, unlock and remote start GM ve... by tptacek on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @11:25AM (#10010426)
Digital signatures are (a) not simple --- the cost and complexity of implementing and verifying them might be as bad as that of switching to a different phy/mac and (b) particularly tricky to do in microcontroller parts.
Re:Hacker shows he can locate, unlock and remote start GM ve... by mzs on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @11:52AM (#10010645)
Some controllers already do some similar things, more like shared secrets though. It's common in the brakes. There is some sequence of commands that have to be sent first otherwise later commands will be ignored. The problem is that 1) you can wire in a scope and watch 2) just try every possibility or 3) use the diagnostic/test messages instead that accomplish the same without all of that.