Case study

CarHack: mapping 2010 Nissan Sentra CAN messages

CarHack documents an investigation of CAN traffic from a 2010 Nissan Sentra. Its notes describe tapping the OBD-II port with a Kvaser interface, capturing traffic with SocketCAN and can-utils, and relating vehicle controls to observed message IDs and bits.

Targets: Protocol
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 39
Last commit: 2018-04-19

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A 2010 Nissan Sentra and a Kvaser Leaf Light HS v2 CAN interface are used in the documented setup.
Prerequisites: The documented Linux setup uses SocketCAN and can-utils at 500 kbit/s.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{carhack-nissan-sentra-can-case,
  title = {{CarHack: mapping 2010 Nissan Sentra CAN messages}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/jackm/carhack}},
  url = {https://github.com/jackm/carhack},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/carhack-nissan-sentra-can-case/}}
}

Plain text

CarHack: mapping 2010 Nissan Sentra CAN messages. https://github.com/jackm/carhack (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/carhack-nissan-sentra-can-case/

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nissan.md GitHub · jackm/carhack · Revision 0442dc7
README.md GitHub · jackm/carhack · Revision 0442dc7