Survey and Systematization of Secure Device Pairing

Fomichev, Mikhail; Álvarez, Flor; Steinmetzer, Daniel; Gardner-Stephen, Paul; Hollick, Matthias

doi:10.1109/comst.2017.2748278

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“…Many solutions are available in the literature, already summarized by the authors in [74] and [72]. Common solutions are based on Out Of Band (OOB) channels, such as a camera or infrared links.…”

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confidence: 99%

Short-Range Audio Channels Security: Survey of Mechanisms, Applications, and Research Challenges

Caprolu

Sciancalepore

Pietro

2021

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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Short-range audio channels have appealing distinguishing characteristics: ease of use, low deployment costs, and easy to tune frequencies, to cite a few. Moreover, thanks to their seamless adaptability to the security context, many techniques and tools based on audio signals have been recently proposed. However, while the most promising solutions are turning into valuable commercial products, acoustic channels are also increasingly used to launch attacks against systems and devices, leading to security concerns that could thwart their adoption. To provide a rigorous, scientific, security-oriented review of the field, in this paper we survey and classify methods, applications, and use-cases rooted on short-range audio channels for the provisioning of security services-including Two-Factor Authentication techniques, pairing solutions, device authorization strategies, defense methodologies, and attack schemes. Moreover, we also point out the strengths and weaknesses deriving from the use of short-range audio channels. Finally, we provide open research issues in the context of short-range audio channels security, calling for contributions from both academia and industry.

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confidence: 99%

Short-Range Audio Channels Security: Survey of Mechanisms, Applications, and Research Challenges

Caprolu

Sciancalepore

Pietro

2021

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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“…Secure device pairing schemes allow access to the smartphones by pairing it with a trusted Bluetooth device like a smartwatch and use the same to unlock the phone. is concept from the usability point of view is a very elegant solution but not safe from insider attacks or sniffing attacks [77,78].…”

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Demystifying Authentication Concepts in Smartphones: Ways and Types to Secure Access

Gupta

Buriro

Crispo

2018

Mobile Information Systems

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Smartphones are the most popular and widespread personal devices. Apart from their conventional use, that is, calling and texting, they have also been used to perform multiple security sensitive activities, such as online banking and shopping, social networking, taking pictures, and e-mailing. On a positive side, smartphones have improved the quality of life by providing multiple services that users desire, for example, anytime-anywhere computing. However, on the other side, they also pose security and privacy threats to the users' stored data. User authentication is the first line of defense to prevent unauthorized access to the smartphone. Several authentication schemes have been proposed over the years; however, their presentation might be perplexing to the new researchers to this domain, under the shade of several buzzwords, for example, active, continuous, implicit, static, and transparent, being introduced in academic papers without comprehensive description. Moreover, most of the reported authentication solutions were evaluated mainly in terms of accuracy, overlooking a very important aspect-the usability. is paper surveys various types and ways of authentication, designed and developed primarily to secure the access to smartphones and attempts to clarify correlated buzzwords, with the motivation to assist new researchers in understanding the gist behind those concepts. We also present the assessment of existing user authentication schemes exhibiting their security and usability issues.

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“…To match the signal strength of a nearby device, Equation (13) suggests that an adversary with a standard 3 dBi antenna located 1 m away would need to transmit a signal at a whopping 53 dBm -well above the capabilities of SDRs. The Ettus Research UBX-40 daughterboard for the N210 SDR, for example, transmits at roughly 20 dBm in the Wi-Fi frequency range.…”

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“…Providing secure, user-intended communications between devices that encounter each other on an ad-hoc basis is a challenge that has not yet been fully addressed [13]. The main difficulty is that the newly discovered devices do not have a common point of trust.…”

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Proximity Detection with Single-Antenna IoT Devices

Pierson

Peters

Peterson

et al. 2019

The 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

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Providing secure communications between wireless devices that encounter each other on an ad-hoc basis is a challenge that has not yet been fully addressed. In these cases, close physical proximity among devices that have never shared a secret key is sometimes used as a basis of trust; devices in close proximity are deemed trustworthy while more distant devices are viewed as potential adversaries. Because radio waves are invisible, however, a user may believe a wireless device is communicating with a nearby device when in fact the user's device is communicating with a distant adversary. Researchers have previously proposed methods for multi-antenna devices to ascertain physical proximity with other devices, but devices with a single antenna, such as those commonly used in the Internet of Things, cannot take advantage of these techniques. We present theoretical and practical evaluation of a method called SNAP-SiNgle Antenna Proximitythat allows a single-antenna Wi-Fi device to quickly determine proximity with another Wi-Fi device. Our proximity detection technique leverages the repeating nature Wi-Fi's preamble and the behavior of a signal in a transmitting antenna's near-field region to detect proximity with high probability; SNAP never falsely declares proximity at ranges longer than 14 cm.

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Survey and Systematization of Secure Device Pairing

Cited by 53 publications

References 168 publications

Short-Range Audio Channels Security: Survey of Mechanisms, Applications, and Research Challenges

Short-Range Audio Channels Security: Survey of Mechanisms, Applications, and Research Challenges

Demystifying Authentication Concepts in Smartphones: Ways and Types to Secure Access

Proximity Detection with Single-Antenna IoT Devices

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