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From: Ronny L Nilsson <bb@arbetsmyra.dyndns.org>
To: bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] Smartcard replacement security?
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:45:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050323154630.F2A554A3@arbetsmyra.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1111590295.1916.3.camel@pegasus>


> > 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.
> Marcel


Sure, but I was woundering how hard it is for an intruder to guess the 
link key. Of course if he sniff the traffic while doing the pairing 
with PIN he knows my code, but if he misses this pairing, then what is 
his chanses? The BD_ADDR is of course public (via a nearby scan).

I haven't read the whole spec but minor parts of it. It says 
authentication can be made one-way or both-ways. Do BlueZ support both 
of these ways? Which is the most commonly used?

Regards
/Ronny




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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-23 15:45 UTC|newest]

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
2005-03-23 15:45   ` Ronny L Nilsson [this message]
2005-03-23 17:38     ` Marcel Holtmann

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