Eric Wagner
Eric Wagner is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Luxembourg in the Security and Network Security (SNS) group headed by Prof. Dr. Vincent Lenders. Eric received a Ph.D. from RWTH Aachen University and worked as a researcher at Fraunhofer FKIE in the Cyber Analysis & Defense (CA&D) group before joining the University of Luxembourg. His research interest mainly focus on the security of communication protocols in cyber-physical systems.
Session
Most automotive security research still relies on manual or semi-automated processes to reverse-engineer CAN bus protocols and reveal how vehicle data such as speed, acceleration, or throttle position is encoded. We present a novel, fully automated approach that instantly identifies the bits corresponding to physical vehicle features, even on previously unseen models, by analyzing physics-based relationships reflected in raw CAN traffic. Our method accelerates reverse engineering from hours or days to mere minutes. We explore the impact of such fully-automated passive reverse engineering not only for vehicles but also for other CPS/OT environements.