Secure device pairing based on a visual channel

Saxena, Nitesh; Ekberg, Jan-Erik; Kostiainen, Kari; Asokan, N.

doi:10.1109/sp.2006.35

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“…As a result, this area has received much attention from many different research groups [16,25,28,29,45,51] recently.…”

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Authentication protocols based on low-bandwidth unspoofable channels: A comparative survey

Nguyen

Roscoe

2011

JCS

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One of the main challenges in pervasive computing is how we can establish secure communication over an untrusted high-bandwidth network without any initial knowledge or a Public Key Infrastructure. An approach studied by a number of researchers is building security though human work creating a low-bandwidth empirical (or authentication) channel where the transmitted information is authentic and cannot be faked or modified. In this paper, we give an analytical survey of authentication protocols of this type. We start with non-interactive authentication schemes, and then move on to analyse a number of strategies used to build interactive pair-wise and group protocols that minimise the human work relative to the amount of security obtained as well as optimising the computation processing. In studying these protocols, we will discover that their security is underlined by the idea of commitment before knowledge, which is refined by two protocol design principles introduced in this survey.

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“…As a result, this area has received much attention from many different research groups [16,25,28,29,45,51] recently.…”

Section: Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Authentication protocols based on low-bandwidth unspoofable channels: A comparative survey

Nguyen

Roscoe

2011

JCS

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“…Since these protocols require devices to have high resolution displays, other approaches employ simple LEDs for emitting visual patterns to be compared [12].…”

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Secure Negotiation for Manual Authentication Protocols

Milutinovic

Peeters

Decker

2011

Communications and Multimedia Security

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“…Short range directed channel methods use wireless transmission technologies to transfer information between devices. Examples include infra-red [1,2] and light [3,4]. Timing methods rely on transmission of information within well timed intervals such that an intruder finds it hard to synchronise and successfully attack the association.…”

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Secure and Usable Out-Of-Band Channels for Ad Hoc Mobile Device Interactions

Kainda

Fléchais

Roscoe

2010

Information Security Theory and Practices. Security and Privacy of Pervasive Systems and Smart Devices

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Abstract. Protocols for bootstrapping security in ad hoc mobile device interactions rely on users' ability to perform specific tasks such as transferring or comparing fingerprints of information between devices. The size of fingerprints depends on the level of technical security 1 required by a given application but, at the same time, is limited by users' inability to deal with large amounts of data with high levels of accuracy. Large fingerprints provide high technical security but potentially reduce usability of protocols which may result in users making mistakes that compromise security. This conflict between technical security and usability requires methods for transferring fingerprints between devices that maximise both to achieve acceptable effective security. In this paper, we propose two methods for transferring fingerprints between devices. We conducted a usability and security evaluation of the methods and our results show that, in contrast to previous proposals, our methods are both usable and resistant to security failures.

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Secure device pairing based on a visual channel

Cited by 158 publications

References 5 publications

Authentication protocols based on low-bandwidth unspoofable channels: A comparative survey

Authentication protocols based on low-bandwidth unspoofable channels: A comparative survey

Secure Negotiation for Manual Authentication Protocols

Secure and Usable Out-Of-Band Channels for Ad Hoc Mobile Device Interactions

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