Application US20190334706

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING CONTROLLER ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATIONS
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US20190334706

1. An autonomous driving controller for a vehicular autonomous driving system that has a plurality of autonomous driving sensors, the autonomous driving controller comprising: (7) (2)

a plurality of parallel processors operating on common input data received from the plurality of autonomous driving sensors, each of the plurality of parallel processors including: a general processor; and

a security processor subsystem (SCS); and

communication circuitry configured to support communications between the plurality of parallel processors, including communications between the general processors of the plurality of parallel processors and communications between the SCSs of the plurality of parallel processors that are protected by SCS cryptography.

2. The autonomous driving controller of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of parallel processors is configured to store a SCS private key corresponding to the SCS cryptography in a local memory dedicated to its SCS. (0)

3. The autonomous driving controller of claim 1, wherein the SCS of each of the plurality of parallel processors includes dedicated SCS cryptography hardware. (0)

4. The autonomous driving controller of claim 1, wherein: (1) (2)

each of the plurality of parallel processors further includes a safety subsystem (SMS); and

the communication circuitry is further configured to support communications between the SMSs of the plurality of parallel processors protected by SMS cryptography, the SMS cryptography differing from the SCS cryptography.

5. The autonomous driving controller of claim 4, wherein each of the plurality of parallel processors is configured to: (0) (2)

6. The autonomous driving controller of claim 1, wherein a first SCS of a first parallel processor of the plurality of parallel processors is configured to: (3) (2)

establish a private communication link with a second SCS of a second parallel processor of the plurality of parallel processors; and

use the private communication link to transmit a SCS private key to the second SCS of the second parallel processor for subsequent use in communications protected by the SCS cryptography.

7. The autonomous driving controller of claim 6, wherein in establishing the private communication link with the second SCS of the second parallel processor of the plurality of parallel processors: (0) (2)

8. The autonomous driving controller of claim 6, wherein in establishing the private communication link with the second SCS of the second parallel processor of the plurality of parallel processors, the first SCS uses one of: (0) (2)

9. The autonomous driving controller of claim 6, wherein the private key is one of: (0) (2)

10. The autonomous driving controller of claim 1, wherein the plurality of parallel processors is constructed according to one of: (0) (3)

11. The autonomous driving controller of claim 1, wherein the communication circuitry supports intra-vehicle communications among the plurality of autonomous driving sensors and the autonomous driving controller using intra-vehicle cryptography that differs from the SCS cryptography. (0)

12. The autonomous driving controller of claim 1, wherein the communication circuitry supports extra-vehicle communications using extra-vehicle cryptography that differs from both the intra-vehicle cryptography and the SCS cryptography. (0)

13. An autonomous driving controller for a vehicular autonomous driving system that has a plurality of autonomous driving sensors, the autonomous driving controller comprising: (4) (2)

a security processor subsystem (SCS); and

a safety subsystem (SMS); and

communication circuitry configured to support communications between the plurality of parallel processors, including inter-processor communications between the general processors of the plurality of parallel processors, communications between the SCSs of the plurality of parallel processors using SCS cryptography, and communications between the SMSs of the plurality of parallel processors using SMS cryptography, the SMS cryptography differing from the SCS cryptography.

14. The autonomous driving controller of claim 13, wherein each of the plurality of parallel processors is configured to: (0) (2)

15. The autonomous driving controller of claim 13, wherein the SCS of each of the plurality of parallel processors includes dedicated SCS cryptography hardware. (0)

16. The autonomous driving controller of claim 13, wherein the SMS of each of the plurality of parallel processors includes dedicated SMS cryptography hardware. (0)

17. The autonomous driving controller of claim 13, wherein a first SMS of a first parallel processor of the plurality of parallel processors is configured to: (0) (2)

18. A method for operating an autonomous driving controller that includes a plurality of parallel processors, the method comprising: (4) (6)

a first security processor subsystem (SCS) of a first parallel processor of the plurality of parallel processors acquiring an SCS private key;

the first SCS securely distributing the SCS private key to other SCSs of other parallel processors of the plurality of parallel processors;

a first safety processor subsystem (SMS) of the first parallel processor of the plurality of parallel processors acquiring an SMS private key, wherein the SMS private key differs from the SCS private key;

the first SMS securely distributing the SMS private key to other SMSs of other parallel processors of the plurality of parallel processors;

the first SCS communicating with the other SCSs of the other parallel processors of the plurality of parallel processors using SCS cryptography based on the SCS private key; and

the first SMS communicating with the other SMSs of the other parallel processors of the plurality of parallel processors using SMS cryptography based on the SMS private key.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the first SCS, in acquiring the SCS private key, retrieves the SCS private key from dedicated memory. (0)

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the first SCS, in acquiring the SCS private key and/or in securing distributing the SCS private key to other SCS of the other parallel processes uses dedicated SCS cryptography hardware. (0)

21. The method of claim 18, wherein the first SMS, in acquiring the SMS private key, retrieves the SMS private key from dedicated memory. (0)

22. The method of claim 18, wherein the first SMS, in acquiring the SMS private key and/or in securing distributing the SMS private key to other SMS of the other parallel processes uses dedicated SMS cryptography hardware. (0)

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Application US20190334706

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING CONTROLLER ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATIONS

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