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by Miner49er 3965 days ago
From what I understand, they have to capture two uses of the key fob to be able to brute force, so if you don't use it then they can't capture anything. Or they just captured two uses from a random car and now it'll work on any car. I wish the article went into more detail.
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bri3d 3965 days ago
The paper is right here: https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/sec15_supplement....

They captured 2 uses of the RFID-based immobilizer. That gets used every time you start the car, regardless of how you unlocked the car. It's completely separate from the UHF-based keyless entry system which you use to unlock the car.

The paper makes this distinction in the first paragraph, but of course the article fails to distinguish.

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Miner49er 3965 days ago
Ah okay, yeah I misunderstood what was happening here. Thanks for the info.
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nulluk 3965 days ago
As bri3d has mentioned, I think you are confused because the key actually has three independent functions and you need to make the distinction between them all.

    - Remote central locking via UHF
    - Immobiliser authentication via RFID (this is what is vulnerable) 
    - Key for the ignition barrel or manual unlocking of doors
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