With the rising interest in vehicular communication systems many proposals for secure vehicle-to-vehicle communication were made in recent years. Also, several standardization activities concerning the security and privacy measures in these communication systems were initiated in Europe and in US. Here, we discuss some limitations for secure vehicle-to-infrastructure communication in the existing standards of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute. Next, a vulnerability analysis

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... roadside stations on one side and security and privacy requirements for roadside stations on the other side are given. Afterwards, a proposal for a multi-domain public key architecture for intelligent transport systems, which considers the necessities of road infrastructure authorities and vehicle manufacturers, is introduced. The domains of the public key infrastructure are cryptographically linked based on local trust lists. In addition, a crypto agility concept is suggested, which takes adaptation of key length and cryptographic algorithms during PKI operation into account.