Practical provably secure key sharing for near field communication devices

Elbagoury, Ahmed; Mohsen, Ahmed; Ramadan, Mohamed; Youssef, Moustafa

doi:10.1109/iccnc.2013.6504182

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“…The works in [13,14] proposed Physical layer key generation methods by using the wireless channel measurements. By exploiting the reciprocal property of the wireless fading channel between two NFC devices, shared secret key can be generated.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Existing works [1,2,12,13,14] indicate that using symmetric key cryptography to secure the NFC is a practical solution to protect against many kinds of attacks. It is mentioned in [1] that due to the inherent protection of NFC against Man-in-the-MiddleAttacks, standard key agreement protocols like DiffieHellman based on RSA or Elliptic Curves could be applied to establish symmetric keys.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Practical Secret Key Agreement for Full-Duplex Near Field Communications

Jin

Deng

et al. 2016

IEEE Trans. on Mobile Comput.

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Near Field Communication (NFC) is a promising short distance radio communication technology for many useful applications. Although its communication range is short, NFC alone does not guarantee secure communication and is subject to security attacks, such as eavesdropping attack. Generating a shared key and using symmetric key cryptography to secure the communication between NFC devices is a feasible solution to prevent various attacks. However, conventional Diffie-Hellman key agreement protocol is not preferable for resource constrained NFC devices due to its extensive computational overhead and energy consumption. In this paper, we propose a practical, fast and energy-efficient key agreement scheme, which uses random bits transmission with waveform shaking, for NFC devices by exploiting its off-the-shelf full-duplex capability. In the proposed method, two devices send random bits to each other simultaneously without strict synchronization or perfect match of amplitude and phase. On the contrary, the method randomly introduces synchronization offset and mismatch of amplitude and phase for each bit transmission in order to prevent a passive attacker from determining the generated key. A shared bit can be established when two devices send different bits. We conduct theoretical analysis on the correctness and security strength of the method, and extensive simulations to evaluate its effectiveness. We build a testbed based on USRP software defined radio and conduct proof-of-concept experiments to evaluate the method in a real-world environment. It shows that the proposed method achieves a high key generation rate of about 26kbps and is immune to eavesdropping attack even when the attacker is within several centimeters from the legitimate devices. The proposed method is a practical, fast, energy-efficient, and secure key agreement scheme for resource-constrained NFC devices.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Practical Secret Key Agreement for Full-Duplex Near Field Communications

Jin

Deng

et al. 2016

IEEE Trans. on Mobile Comput.

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“…The works in [12,8] proposed Physical layer key generation methods by using the wireless channel measurements. By exploiting the reciprocal property of the wireless fading channel between two NFC devices, shared secret key can be generated.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Existing works [14,3,7,12,8] indicate that using symmetric key cryptography to secure the NFC is a practical solution to protect against many kinds of attacks. It is mentioned in [14] that due to the inherent protection of NFC against Man-in-the-Middle-Attacks, standard key agreement protocols like Diffie-Hellman based on RSA or Elliptic Curves could be applied to establish symmetric keys.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Practical secret key agreement for full-duplex near field communications

Jin

Deng

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 9th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security

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Near Field Communication (NFC) is a promising short distance radio communication technology for many useful applications. Although its communication range is short, NFC alone does not guarantee secure communication and is subject to security attacks, such as eavesdropping attack. Generating a shared key and using symmetric key cryptography to secure the communication between NFC devices is a feasible solution to prevent various attacks. However, conventional Diffie-Hellman key agreement protocol is not preferable for resource constrained NFC devices due to its extensive computational overhead and energy consumption. In this paper, we propose a practical, fast and energy-efficient key agreement scheme, called RIWA (Random bIts transmission with Waveform shAking), for NFC devices by exploiting its full-duplex capability. In RIWA, two devices send random bits to each other simultaneously without strict synchronization or perfect match of amplitude and phase. On the contrary, RIWA randomly introduces synchronization offset and mismatch of amplitude and phase for each bit transmission in order to prevent a passive attacker from determining the generated key. A shared bit can be established when two devices send different bits. We conduct theoretical analysis on the correctness and security strength of RIWA, and extensive simulations to evaluate its effectiveness. We build a testbed based on USRP software defined radio and conduct proof-of-concept experiments to evaluate RIWA in a real-world environment. It shows that RIWA achieves a high key generation rate about 26kbps and is immune to eavesdropping attack even when the attacker is within several centimeters away from the legitimate devices. RIWA is a practical, fast, energy-efficient, and secure key agreement scheme for resource-constrained NFC devices.

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“…NFC was designed to allow different objects with the same technology to communicate securely with each other. However, this protocol suffers from several attacks [42]. The most important attacks are the following:…”

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A Comprehensive IoT Attacks Survey based on a Building-blocked Reference Model

Abdul-Ghani¹,

Konstantas²,

Mahyoub³

2018

ijacsa

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Internet of Things (IoT) has not yet reached a distinctive definition. A generic understanding of IoT is that it offers numerous services in many domains, utilizing conventional internet infrastructure by enabling different communication patterns such as human-to-object, object-to-objects, and object-to-object. Integrating IoT objects into the standard Internet, however, has unlocked several security challenges, as most internet technologies and connectivity protocols have been specifically designed for unconstrained objects. Moreover, IoT objects have their own limitations in terms of computation power, memory and bandwidth. IoT vision, therefore, has suffered from unprecedented attacks targeting not only individuals but also enterprises, some examples of these attacks are loss of privacy, organized crime, mental suffering, and the probability of jeopardizing human lives. Hence, providing a comprehensive classification of IoT attacks and their available countermeasures is an indispensable requirement. In this paper, we propose a novel four-layered IoT reference model based on building blocks strategy, in which we develop a comprehensive IoT attack model composed of four key phases. First, we have proposed IoT asset-based attack surface, which consists of four main components: 1) physical objects, 2) protocols covering whole IoT stack, 3) data, and 4) software. Second, we describe a set of IoT security goals. Third, we identify IoT attack taxonomy for each asset. Finally, we show the relationship between each attack and its violated security goals, and identify a set of countermeasures to protect each asset as well. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper that attempts to provide a comprehensive IoT attacks model based on a building-blocked reference model.

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Practical provably secure key sharing for near field communication devices

Cited by 7 publications

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Practical secret key agreement for full-duplex near field communications

A Comprehensive IoT Attacks Survey based on a Building-blocked Reference Model

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