Enabling Confidentiality for ADS-B Broadcast Messages Based on Format-Preserving Encryption
Rong Shun Huang, Hao Yang, Hong Gang Wu · Applied Mechanics and Materials · 2014
The automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) system is the backbone of the next-gen air traffic control (ATC) modernization plan. Unfortunately, ADS-B system suffers from serious cyber-security vulnerabilities due to the open broadcast of aircraft data, without regard to message confidentiality. However, using common encryption scheme to provide confidentiality of ADS-B data is not a good solution, because encrypting data with ordinary cryptosystem would violate the original openness intention of ADS-B system design. In this paper, based on the new format-preserving encryption (FPE), we present an efficient data encryption scheme for the ADS-B data. The security analysis demonstrates that our scheme can achieve confidentiality of ADS-B data. The performance evaluation shows that the scheme is computationally efficient for the typical avionics devices with limited resources.