%0 Journal Article
%T A Generic Framework for Device Pairing in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
%A Yasir Arfat Malkani
%A Dan Chalmers
%A Ian Wakeman
%A Lachhman Das Dhomeja
%J International Journal of Network Security & Its Applications
%D 2012
%I Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
%X Recently secure device pairing has had significant attention from a wide community of academic as wellas industrial researchers and a plethora of schemes and protocols have been proposed, which use various forms of out-of-band exchange to form an association between two unassociated devices. These protocolsand schemes have different strengths and weaknesses ¨C often in hardware requirements, strength againstvarious attacks or usability in particular scenarios. From ordinary userĄ¯s point of view, the problem then becomes which to choose or which is the best possible scheme in a particular scenario. We advocate that in a world of modern heterogeneous devices and requirements, there is a need for mechanisms that allowautomated selection of the best protocols without requiring the user to have an in-depth knowledge of the minutiae of the underlying technologies. Towards this, the main argument forming the basis of this research work is that the integration of a discovery mechanism and several pairing schemes into a single system is more efficient from a usability point of view as well as security point of view in terms of dynamic choice of pairing schemes. In pursuit of this, we have proposed a generic system for secure device pairing by demonstration of physical proximity. The contributions presented in this paper include the design and prototype implementation of the proposed framework along with a novel Co-Location protocol.
%K Device Association
%K Security
%K Authentication
%K Physical Proximity
%K Device Discovery
%U http://airccse.org/journal/nsa/0312nsa01.pdf