Device authentication method and apparatus

Abstract

This application relates to an apparatus and a non-transitory computer readable medium applying to the internet of vehicles. Embodiments of this application implement a distributed authentication process, which including sending information used to indicate a to-be-authenticated device to the to-be-authenticated device. Compared with a centralized authentication mechanism, the authentication manner in the embodiments of this application reduces load of a device because one intermediate node does not need to perform authentication on a plurality of nodes. If the to-be-authenticated device fails to be authenticated, because the authentication is an authentication process related to a first service, the determined execution policy is an execution policy related to the first service, and the determined execution policy better meets a service requirement.

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