From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: BlueZ Mailing List <bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] Smartcard replacement security?
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:04:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1111590295.1916.3.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050323094241.380D34A3@arbetsmyra.dyndns.org>
Hi Ronny,
> I'd like to know your general opinion on using a Bluetooth enabled
> device (cell phone) as a smart card replacement.
>
> I'm thinking of using a phone to automaticly unlocking e.g. my computer
> screensaver when I'm nearby. The devices needs to be paired of course.
> But then, how "unsafe" is this realy? Can someone else spoof my phone
> and thus fooling my computer other than using some kind of brute force?
> Authentication is made two-ways, right?
this depends on how your automatic unlocking is working. If you know the
link key and the BD_ADDR you can spoof anything.
Regards
Marcel
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-23 9:41 [Bluez-users] Smartcard replacement security? Ronny L Nilsson
2005-03-23 15:04 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2005-03-23 15:45 ` Ronny L Nilsson
2005-03-23 17:38 ` Marcel Holtmann
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