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A threat analysis of the vehicle-to-grid charging protocol ISO 15118

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This work performs a security analysis of the vehicle-to-grid charging protocol ISO 15118 and presents various scenarios of how to compromise the availability of the charging service or the integrity, authenticity, or confidentiality of the communication on a protocol level. Furthermore, it analyzes processes related to the authentication, transfer of information, and the certification hierarchy for vulnerabilities, which could be used by an adversary to gain unfair advantage over the charging process and use it for his own self-interest, mostly harming legitimate users or other participants.

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  1. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Kaiserstrasse 12, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Kaibin Bao, Hristo Valev, Manuela Wagner & Hartmut Schmeck

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This work is partially supported by the project Inductive and InteroperabLe charging Systems for Electric vehicles (IILSE) (No. 01MX15004), part of the funding program ELEKTRO POWER II: Electric Mobility Positioning Along the Value Chain by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) and by the project Security for interconnected infrastructures (No. 16KIS0521) within the KASTEL competence center of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

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Bao, K., Valev, H., Wagner, M. et al. A threat analysis of the vehicle-to-grid charging protocol ISO 15118. Comput Sci Res Dev 33, 3–12 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00450-017-0342-y

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