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CamperBob2today at 5:01 PM1 replyview on HN

I fear the next version of Miata will be an encrypted CAN like most other cars have moved to

As I understand it, they're required to do that now if they want to sell in the EU. They emphatically do not want anyone tinkering with their cars.


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bri3dtoday at 5:04 PM

They don’t want people modifying ADAS systems mostly, and the main requirement is SecOC, which is cryptographic authentication but the message is still plaintext. Basically they don’t want third party modifications able to randomly send the “steer left” message to the steering rack, for example.

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