Centralized Vehicle License Management on ERTMS : Key Database and Communication between Server and RBC

Abstract: Today’s rail industry is under great demand. People will use trains even more in the future. Rail industry has to develop and integrate new systems towards a secure transportation system. One of these steps is investigated in this master thesis. Until now, many sensitive and vital data were transferred by using old methods like USB storage devices. In this master thesis, a new and secure way to store authentication keys in a central database is described as well as a secure way of communication between this database and the RBC entities. Different technologies are used and have as result the proposed goal. The creation of a database with PHP and the implementation of a server-client communication using TLS and HTTPS are described in this project. Improvements and future development of the project are discussed at the end.