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The Resurrecting Duckling: Security Issues for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks
Frank Stajano,Frank Stajano,Ross Anderson +2 more
- pp 172-194
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A resurrecting duckling security policy model is presented, which describes secure transient association of a device with multiple serialised owners over the air in a short range wireless channel.Abstract:
In the near future, many personal electronic devices will be able to communicate with each other over a short range wireless channel. We investigate the principal security issues for such an environment. Our discussion is based on the concrete example of a thermometer that makes its readings available to other nodes over the air. Some lessons learned from this example appear to be quite general to ad-hoc networks, and rather different from what we have come to expect in more conventional systems: denial of service, the goals of authentication, and the problems of naming all need re-examination. We present the resurrecting duckling security policy model, which describes secure transient association of a device with multiple serialised owners.read more
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Low Cost Attacks on Tamper Resistant Devices
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Ross Anderson,Markus G. Kuhn +1 more
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