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Welcome to the blog of Dr. Ken Tindell, CTO of Canis Automotive Labs. This blog is focused on the work Canis is doing on CAN bus and CAN security, but also covers the design of embedded software and hardware for automotive systems and the Yes We Can project at Canis that develops hardware, software and tools for CAN bus: the CANHack toolkit for injecting faults into the CAN protocol, CANPico and CANHack hardware boards for the Raspberry Pi Pico, and the can2 logic analyzer CAN protocol decoder.

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Running high speed signals through CAN bus wiring

CAN bus wiring has a big effect on how fast data can go on CAN. CAN bits are normally 2000ns (2 microseconds, or 500kbit/sec) or longer for slower buses (a...

Ken
15 Nov 2022

Getting started with CryptoCAN on the CANPico

CryptoCAN is an encryption scheme for CAN messaging developed by Canis Labs. It’s designed to fit the publish/subscribe method of communication that CAN was designed for, and has a simple...

Ken
10 Oct 2022

DEF CON 30 Car Hacking Village CTF challenge

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Ben Gardiner
27 Sep 2022

Debugging C on the CANPico

The Raspberry Pi Pico is an excellent embedded platform, noted for its excellent documentation (and also the RP2040 microcontroller, one of the few that is currently not made from unobtainium)....

Ken
26 Jul 2022

Defending the CAN bus Part 4: CAN-HG

Episode 3 of this Defending CAN series discussed security gateways. This fourth episode describes hardware protection of CAN using the new CAN-HG augmentation of the CAN protocol. The episode describes...

Ken
24 Nov 2021

Defending the CAN bus Part 3: Security Gateways

Episode 2 of this series covered cryptography on CAN. This third episode describes security gateways, using as a case study the Canis Labs security gateway. Covered are the things that...