Secure Information Transfer Between Nearby Wireless Devices

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Timothy J. Pierson, Ronald Peterson, and David Kotz. Secure Information Transfer Between Nearby Wireless Devices. Proceedings of the Mobicom S3 workshop, pages 11–13. ACM, October 2017. doi:10.1145/3131348.3131355. ©Copyright ACM.

Abstract:

Securely transferring data between two devices that have never previously met nor shared a secret is a difficult task. Previous solutions to the problem are susceptible to well-known attacks or may require extensive infrastructure that may not be suitable for wireless devices such as Internet of Things sensors that do not have advanced computational capabilities.

We propose a new approach: using jamming to thwart adversaries located more than a few centimeters away, while still allowing devices in close physical proximity to securely share data. To accomplish this secure data transfer we exploit MIMO antennas and the Inverse-Square Law.

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Keywords: [iot] [security] [wifi]

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