Electric vehicle with public and private keys pairs to cryptographically secure sensitive information relative to the electric vehicle
AssigneeActon, Inc.
InventorsAndrew Lam, Jeremy Wood, Peter Treadway
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Abstract
An electric vehicle is provided. A cloud is coupled to and in communication with the electric vehicle. The cloud includes a server. A plurality of private keys and private key pairs cryptographically secure sensitive information relative to the electric vehicle. The private keys perform one or more of: decryption; encryption: or signing data. A corresponding public key decrypts or verifies a signature of the data signed by its private key Public keys cannot be used to encrypt or sign data.
Claims26
An electric vehicle, comprising:
- a cloud coupled to and in communication with the electric vehicle, the cloud including a server;
- and
- a plurality of private keys and private key pairs to cryptographically secure sensitive information relative to the electric vehicle, the private keys used to perform one or more of:
- decryption;
- encryption:
- or signing data, and a corresponding public key used to decrypt or verify a signature of the data signed by its private key, wherein public keys cannot be used to encrypt or sign data.
As a non-limiting example, with the present invention, private keys are secure and in the cloud.
The system if claim, wherein if any one component's message part fails verification, then the electric vehicle does not activate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.