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@article{208743,
        author = {Vijay Bhagwat Ukande and Prof. Dr. Swapnesh Taterh},
        title = {NAEBA: An Encrypted Black-Box Architecture for Tamper-Proof Automotive Evidence},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {13},
        number = {no},
        pages = {639-643},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=208743},
        abstract = {In India, hit and run cases are very hard to solve. Usually there's just no proof of what happened. Dashcams are getting common now, but they don't hold up in court. Anyone can pull the SD card and delete or change the clip, and that's it, evidence gone. In this paper I am proposing a system called NAEBA, National Automotive Encrypted Black-Box Architecture. The idea is simple. The car records video and locks it with encryption the second it's captured. Nobody can open that footage unless two separate keys come together. One key stay inside the car. The other sits with a judicial authority, not the police officer on the spot, not the car owner. So even I, as the owner of my own car, wouldn't be able to peek at my own footage whenever I feel like it. Police only get access if an FIR is actually filed, and even then, only for the exact hour or two they need, not the whole month of recordings. I used AES-256-GCM for the encryption and based the key-splitting on Shamir's 1979 idea. Storage wipes itself every 30 days automatically, which keeps it in line with India's DPDP Act. While I was running the storage numbers for this paper, I actually found an error in my own earlier calculation, and I've kept that in the Results section instead of quietly fixing it and pretending it was never wrong. The last part of the paper is about what building this for real would actually take.},
        keywords = {Automotive Cybersecurity, AES-256 Encryption, Threshold Cryptography, Digital Public Infrastructure, Hardware Security Module, Evidence Integrity},
        month = {September},
        }