A study of the security aspects of the green move vehicle sharing system

The idea of vehicle sharing system can be backdated to tens of years ago both in Europe and USA. Vehicle Sharing can provide us numerous benefits by ways of relieving the traffic jam problem, reducing the air pollution, giving back the cities more space, cutting down the cost on one's trip and so on. However, it was not until the emergence of Electric Vehicles that vehicle sharing became more and more close to us. In the meanwhile, the vehicle sharing systems are required to evolve to meet several new important requirements: such as easier interactions with the system for end users, more possibilities for both stakeholders and administrators to benefit from the systems, smoother configurations. The Green Move Project of Politecnico di Milano is exactly devised with all these in mind: with Green Move Center one could easily reserve a vehicle and receive a digital key from it, then use it to unlock the vehicle; the stakeholders can install variety of dynamic green move applications such as advertisements in the Green e-Box; the system can be easily configured for either scooters or four wheels' vehicles. This thesis looks inside the components of the Green Move Vehicle Sharing System (GMVSS), especially the Green e-Boxes which are installed in the vehicles and used to interact with them, analyzes the security issues inside, gives several experiments to exploit the vulnerabilities, and then proposes solutions to avoid such vulnerabilities.