Effective and Efficient Use of Elliptic Curve Cryptography ‎‎(ECC) for The Security of Vehicular Data Platform/Networks

  • Authors

    • Amol Phatak Research Scholar, CSE Dept, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of ‎Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
    • Dr. Rajendran T. Professor and Head, Dept of CSE (Cyber Security), Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala ‎R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
    https://doi.org/10.14419/dq7ksd55

    Received date: July 7, 2025

    Accepted date: August 15, 2025

    Published date: August 24, 2025

  • ECC;Vehicular Data Networks; Security and Privacy; Private Key; AES; Public Key; RSA

  • Abstract

    Nowadays, with the widespread use of numerous sensors in vehicular data ‎platforms/networks to enhance communication and support systems, a substantial amount of ‎data is generated. The information gathered through this data is not secure, and it is ‎necessary to apply security and privacy measures to vehicular data platforms/networks. This ‎paper proposes the use of the ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) method to achieve security ‎and privacy. The large amount of vehicular data is divided into different types, such as live ‎status data, vehicle details data, insurance data, maintenance data, etc. The proposed method ‎categorizes this data into high-level, medium-level, and low-level categories to apply the ‎appropriate cryptographic methods, thereby enhancing security and ensuring privacy for end-‎users. The ECC is implemented and analyzed on data of different sizes and compared its ‎performance with a private key (symmetric) algorithm, DES (Data Encryption Standard), ‎and AES (Advanced Encryption Standard), as well as the public-key (asymmetric) algorithm ‎RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman). The result shows that the use of ECC is effective and ‎efficient for the security of vehicular data platforms/networks, compared with other ‎traditional cryptographic algorithms‎.

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    Phatak, A. ., & T., D. R. . (2025). Effective and Efficient Use of Elliptic Curve Cryptography ‎‎(ECC) for The Security of Vehicular Data Platform/Networks. International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 14(4), 624-629. https://doi.org/10.14419/dq7ksd55