Authentication rights enhancement on transport services

Abstract

The invention provides authentication authority enhancement on transportation service. The present disclosure relates to an automotive computer that uses an authentication manager to communicate with a mobile device to increase and / or decrease user rights to determine a level of vehicle control or feature access granted to a user. The authentication manager may increase or decrease the user rights to a standard occupant state until the authentication manager has confirmed a promoted state of the user via a cloud security challenge question or via a local identification method, such as using the mobile device authentication feature. The process may additionally be triggered based on environmental or contextual use cases, such as high traffic conditions, local network attacks, or transport of sensitive cargo. The system may utilize the authentication to perform out-of-band pairing of the mobile device and the vehicle, which may increase additional security.

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technical field [0001] The present disclosure relates to user authentication, and more particularly to controlling permission levels of mobile devices connected to automotive computers. Background technique [0002] Establishing a wireless, seamless data connection between a mobile device and an autonomous vehicle can be challenging using current methods of mobile device authentication. An unencrypted or untethered wireless mobile device connection between the vehicle and the mobile device may create a security breach. Lack of binding may increase vulnerability to relay attacks. A relay attack involves intercepting information with fraudulent intent for its future use. For example, radio signals or authentication messages between two devices (or people) can be obtained, manipulated or spoofed. In other respects, an eavesdropping attacker may attempt to locate, intercept, and store signals directly from a single device (e.g., a vehicle key fob) that is constantly emitting ...

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Problems solved by technology

While the communications themselves can be encrypted by other means, there is the potential for relay attacks or other hacking attacks because the lack of continuous bonding can make radio frequency (RF) or optical signal channel hopping predictable

Secondary confirmation factors may make unbonded communication channels less vulnerable to relay and other wireless attacks

Conventional vehicle authentication systems, such as the system described in the '803 publication, may not include secondary validation factors that can be selectively or automatically triggered based on predefined risk factors

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