ECDSA-Based Message Authentication Scheme for BeiDou-II Navigation Satellite System

Abstract

This paper proposes a BeiDou-II navigation message authentication scheme to defend against the generating spoofing attacks. In this scheme, a digital signature is generated by the elliptic curve digital signature algorithm and is inserted into the reserved bits of the BeiDou-II navigation message. This signature will verify the integrity and authenticity of the navigation data to avoid entity masquerade and data tampering. Furthermore, the key exchange process is also designed through the short message service or digital certificate. The effectiveness and security of the scheme is evaluated in the simulation. The results indicate that the authentication of BeiDou-II navigation message can be realized in the harsh environment, and the resistance ability of civil BeiDou-II against a spoofing attack could be enhanced by this scheme.