Re: Vehicle's VIN in IPv6.

Brian Haberman <brian@innovationslab.net> Thu, 31 March 2011 12:58 UTC

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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:59:37 -0400
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On 3/31/11 4:40 AM, Scott Brim wrote:
> Hello Radek.
> 
> I have privacy concerns, because the VIN is permanent for the vehicle.
>  I suspect there is a good chance that the vehicle's IP address will
> not be used just for diagnostics, but also for general purpose
> connections to the Internet (for example fetching a movie for the
> children).  If an IP address is based on VIN, then it will never
> change, ever.  It will be possible for observers to build up
> information about what the vehicle's users like to connect to.
> 
> Also, if you are a diagnostic center and you receive packets from an
> IP address claiming to have a particular VIN number, how do you
> authenticate it?  How do you know that is really the vehicle it claims
> to be?  You will need application layer authentication in any case.
> 
> I believe it would be much better to decouple "vehicle identification"
> from "IP layer location" (the IP address).  These tokens have

This made me immediately think of HIP with the VIN being used as the
Host Identifier.

> different purposes.  The vehicle identification is for use with
> database applications and diagnostic applications, while the IP
> address is for IP forwarding to know how to reach the vehicle.  You
> could possibly allow the vehicle to connect to the network and get any
> IP address -- any address at all -- and then connect to the diagnostic
> center and tell you its VIN and authenticate, all in a higher layer
> protocol.