VPKI Hits the Highway: Secure Communication for the Connected Vehicle Program

This article presents a condensed account of the 10-year effort to develop and deploy vehicular public-key infrastructure (VPKI) as a security infrastructure for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) intelligent transportations systems (ITS). The author discusses the ways in which government, industry, and academia have converged to bring the promise of vehicular networks as ITS into the reality of the 21st century.