Apparatus and method for authentication for motor vehicles

• US 8,923,514 B2
• Filed: 08/18/2011
• Issued: 12/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Company
• Original Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Company
• Inventors: Weghaus, Ludger
• Primary Examiner(s): Hirl, Joseph P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): King, John B
• Application Number:
  US13/212,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20120045058A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,230 Days
• Field of Search: 380/255, 380/259, 380/360, 380/262, 380270-271, 380277-278, 380/44, 380/46, 380 28- 30, 713/150, 713/153, 713168-171, 726 1- 2, 726 16- 17, 726 26- 30
• US Class Current: 380/270
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/24 using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user

Abstract

An arrangement on monitoring of authentication, in particular for motor vehicles, includes a first communication apparatus and at least a second communication apparatus, between which a wireless communication channel can be set up. The communication apparatus items have means for authentication and encryption, with which the exchangeable data may be encrypted via the communication channel. The items of communication apparatus have storage means in which one of the digital keys usable for authentication and encryption can be stored, and in that in the storage device there is either in addition to the digital key and/or in the individual key at least one piece of information regarding at least one past communication between the first communication apparatus and the second apparatus that can be stored in memory.

Claims

1. An arrangement for monitoring of authentication, in particular for motor vehicles, comprising:

a first communication apparatus and at least a second communication apparatus, between which a wireless communication channel can be set up,

the first and second communication apparatuses each having an authentication element and an encryption element, with which exchangeable data is encrypted via the wireless communication channel;

each of the first and second communication apparatuses having a memory in which a dynamic digital key used for authentication and encryption is stored; and

at least one piece of information regarding at least one past communication between the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus being stored in at least one of the first or second communication apparatuses, wherein said at least one piece of information is separate from authentication data and includes at least one of a time and date of at least one past communication; and

wherein the first communication apparatus modifies the dynamic digital key based on the at least one piece of information and transmits the modified dynamic digital key to the second communication apparatus for use in a subsequent communication;

wherein said modified dynamic digital key is stored in said memory of each of said first and second communication apparatuses for use in subsequent authentication and encryption.

2. The arrangement according to claim 1, wherein for authentication of the first and/or second communication apparatuses via the wireless communication channel, authentication data encrypted with the digital key are transferable from the first communication apparatus to the second communication apparatus and/or the reverse.

3. The arrangement according to claim 2, wherein for authentication of the first and/or second communication apparatuses via the wireless communication channel the stored piece of information regarding at least one past communication is transferable between the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus.

4. The arrangement according to claim 3, wherein the stored piece of information of at least one past communication is part of the encrypted authentication data or is in addition to the authentication data and is transferable.

5. The arrangement according to claim 1 wherein after a successful authentication of the digital key the digital key is changeable in the first authentication and encryption elements of the first or second communication apparatus.

6. The arrangement according to claim 5, wherein the changed digital key is transferable from the first communication apparatus to the second communication apparatus and/or the reverse.

7. The arrangement according to claim 1 wherein after a successful authentication, the stored piece of information of at least one past communication is changeable through the authentication and encryption elements of the first communication apparatus or the second communication apparatus after a change rule that depends on information from the current communication, and may be transferred through the communication channel to the other communication apparatus and may be stored in the memory of both the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus.

8. The arrangement according to claim 1 wherein after a successful authentication the stored piece of information of at least one past communication is changeable through the authentication and encryption elements of the first or second communication apparatus after an identical change rule, depending on at least one equivalent piece of information via a current communication.

9. The arrangement according to claim 1 further comprising exactly a first communication apparatus and at least 2 second communication apparatuses, wherein the first communication apparatus is set up in a motor vehicle and the second communication apparatus is set up in a radio telemetry service.

10. The arrangement according to claim 9, wherein the memory of the first communication apparatus stores, according to the second communication apparatus, a digital key and the at least one piece of information of at least one past communication.

11. An arrangement for monitoring of authentication, in particular for motor vehicles, comprising:

a first communication apparatus and at least a second communication apparatus, between which a wireless communication channel can be set up,

the first and second communication apparatuses each having an authentication element and an encryption element, with which exchangeable data is encrypted via the wireless communication channel;

each of the first and second communication apparatuses having a memory in which a static digital key used for authentication and encryption is stored; and

at least one piece of information regarding at least one past communication between the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus being stored in at least one of the first or second communication apparatuses, wherein said at least one piece of information is separate from authentication data and includes at least one of a time and date of at least one past communication; and

wherein the second communication apparatus transmits the at least one piece of information to the first communication apparatus for comparison to the at least one piece of information stored in the first communication apparatus, such that both the static digital key and said at least one piece of information must agree in order for authentication to occur.