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The simplest defeat is to require the key ping round trip to complete in N microseconds, where N is sufficiently low. Researchers have demostrated that this is a practical solution.


Theoretically, a attacker can transmit an amplified message 300 m in 1 microsecond. So the car must limit the RTT to only a few dozen nanoseconds. This is fairly easy with modern electronics.


A good search term is distance bounding protocol.

Wikipedia has an article with links to research:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance-bounding_protocol




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