Enhancing security in the ISO 15118–20 EV charging system
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Electric Vehicle (EV) ‘DC Fast Charging’ systems directly connect an EV’s battery to an external charger. A compromised EV charger may damage the EV or be used as part of a demand-side power grid attack. We show that the newest charging standard ISO 15118-20 is not sufficient to prevent charging attacks, as it provides no mechanism to verify charger integrity. We present system and threat models for the attack, before defining an extension to ISO 15118-20 that adds support for firmware integrity verification through remote attestation, while remaining interoperable with non-supporting devices. A proof of concept implementation demonstrates the security improvement by protecting against the specified attack while requiring only 85 bytes of secure storage, 8kB of working memory, and adding less than 0.5 seconds to the length of a charging session. Backwards compatibility with an implementation of the original standard is also demonstrated. • A system and threat model is developed for ISO 15118-20 EV charging • ISO 15118-20 is shown to be insufficient to protect against existing attacks • We develop a remote attestation protocol within ISO 15118-20 to improve security • An experimental platform tests interoperability and evaluates performance overheads
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it