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Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are considered as a promising approach for facilitating road safety, traffic management, and infotainment dissemination for drivers and passengers. However, they are subject to an attack that has a severe impact on their security. This attack is called the Sybil attack, and it is considered as one of the most serious attacks to VANETs, and a threat to lives of drivers and passengers. In this paper, we propose a detection scheme for the Sybil attack. The idea is based on public key cryptography and aims to ensure privacy preservation, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. In addition, we suggest a scalable security and privacy solution using short-lived and authenticated certificates that must be issued from the national certification authority in order to guarantee trust among vehicles.
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Rabieh, K.M., Azer, M.A. (2011). Combating Sybil Attacks in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. In: Özcan, A., Zizka, J., Nagamalai, D. (eds) Recent Trends in Wireless and Mobile Networks. CoNeCo WiMo 2011 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 162. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21937-5_7
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