Electric Charger Research

[Brandon Perry <bperry.volatile () gmail com>]

Attached is a write-up of some research I've been doing since November last
year. The research covers the digital protocols used from an electric
vehicle -> charger (ISO-15118) and the protocols used to manage the charger
from a central management system (OCPP). I also cover some of the equipment
I've used to do the research.

tl;dr - Your vehicle charger port or EVSE charger cable is functionally a
network interface utilizing powerline communication over the control pilot
pin. Using a development kit for electric vehicle and charger research, I
showed how SSH can be configured to listen on the charger cable
accidentally, allowing a vehicle to initiate the network and authenticate
to the SSH server over the charger cable.

I also demonstrate two separate issues affecting open source CSMS
implementations, one a full denial of service, the other partial DoS.

You can also find this HTML file here: https://ocpp.us/howto.html

I hope this helps others. Thanks.