Bluetooth cracked further

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Fri Jun 3 12:55:25 EDT 2005


"Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com> writes:
> Cracking the Bluetooth PIN
>
> http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~yash/shaked-wool-mobisys05/index.html

I realized I didn't mention the really evil part.

1) They can crack your security if they can listen in to the pairing
   communication.
2) They also have a way of forcing pairing to happen, by impersonating
   one of the devices and saying "oops! I need to pair again!" to the
   other.

If you have a pair of bluetooth devices that are paired, best to keep
them in a faraday cage at all times.

Perry

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