Technology Briefs and Whitepapers

In addition to published specifications and code, and reference architecture information, GENIVI presents a family of technology and security-related technology briefs and whitepapers. 

These documents have also been published on the GENIVI home page.

Security Category

 Certificate Pinning Technology Brief

• This one-pager gives an advanced reader an immediate understanding of the basics of Certificate Pinning, for avoidance of Man-in-the-middle attacks against SSL/TLS secured communications.
• GENIVI Certificate Pinning Tech Brief 20180216.pdf

Audience: Busy professionals, software engineers, as well as managers that need a quick awareness boost about risks and mitigations around encrypted communication channels.

Published with support from Irdeto.

 Man-in-the-middle Whitepaper

• This detailed document provides an in-depth analysis of Man-in-the-middle attacks against secured communications, and mitigations, including the concepts mentioned in the Certificate Pinning Technology Brief.
• GENIVI Man in The Middle Attacks whitepaper Feb 20 Final.pdf

Audience: Security professionals, system architects and implementers that need a deeper understanding of pitfalls and risks in implementing SSL/TLS, categories of attacks, and the type of mitigation that is effective against each.

Published with support from Irdeto.

Vehicle Domain Interaction Category

Graphic Sharing & Distributed HMI

 Digital Cockpit HMI Distribution Using Shared State, Independent Rendering

• This brief introduction introduces the 5 identified categories of Graphics Sharing and describes a concrete application of the Shared State / Independent Rendering approach for  Navigation map interaction between an IVI unit display and an instrument cluster display.

• GENIVI_HARMAN Shared State Rendering_TechBrief_20180414.pdf

Published with support from Harman

 Interactive Cockpit HMI using Surface Sharing

• This brief describes the Surface Sharing category of graphics exchange, exemplified by the Wayland+Waltham projects.
• GENIVI_ADIT_SurfaceSharing_TechBrief_20180711.pdf

Published with support from ADIT

 Distributed Graphics Control Through API Remoting

• This brief describes the API Remoting category of graphics exchange, exemplified by the RAMSES project.
• GENIVI Distributed HMI through API Remoting 20181128.pdf

Basic Technologies Category

• WAMP (TBC)
• Waltham protocol (TBC)