Patent ID: 8397063

Claim:
A method for providing vehicular communications network security, comprising: providing a plurality of vehicles in a specified geographic area, each of the plurality of vehicles having a communications component; providing a plurality of communications infrastructure nodes, one or more of the communication infrastructure nodes being static, the plurality of communications infrastructure nodes being unable to provide a data connection to each of the plurality of vehicles such that a number of the vehicles having the data connection is greater than one and less than a number of total vehicles in the specified geographic area; communicating between the vehicles using the plurality of communication infrastructure nodes; communicating vehicle to vehicle (V2V) using the communication components; providing security for the communications between the plurality of vehicles; assigning and installing in the plurality of vehicles at least one security key, a certificate of operation, and a recent certificate revocation list; and securing communications between the plurality of vehicles using the at least one security key, the certificate of operation and the recent certificate revocation list.