“Compare it to breaking a window, or driving up in a tow truck and hauling the car away, and it’s a lot more complicated,” says David Wagner, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, who has studied the cryptographic systems used in keyless-entry systems.
VW Group received a draft and a final copy of the research paper before publication and have acknowledged the vulnerabilities, the authors said.
“Compare it to breaking a window, or driving up in a tow truck and hauling the car away, and it’s a lot more complicated,” says David Wagner, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, who has studied the cryptographic systems used in keyless-entry systems.