The concept for the whole life of cryptographic keys and certificates used by the item: generation, injection, storage, use, update, revocation and destruction, across development, production and the field.
Specification Work product in the Vehicle cybersecurity and software update lifecycle
It ensures that cryptographic protections rest on keys that are generated, handled and retired securely. Without it, keys are shared across fleets, stored in plain form in production tools, never rotated, and a single leak compromises every vehicle.
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