Car Connectivity Consortium Announces Digital Key 2.0 Specification

The Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC) has announced its Digital Key Release 2.0 specification. It is a standardized ecosystem allowing mobile devices to store, authenticate and share digital keys for vehicles in a secure way that preserves privacy and works anywhere. Digital key technology is based on Near Field Communication (NFC), a type of radio frequency identification (RFID).

The digital key architecture uses standardized interfaces to ensure interoperability between deployments of mobile device manufacturers and vehicle manufacturers, as well as standards-based public key infrastructure to establish end-to-end security. Mobile devices create and store digital keys in secure elements, which help to protect against attacks based on hardware or software.