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Key Negotiation Downgrade Attacks on Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy

Daniele Antonioli

Bluetooth (BR/EDR) and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) are pervasive wireless technologies specified in the Bluetooth standard. The standard includes key negotiation protocols used to generate long-term keys (during pairing) and session keys (during secure conn ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

BIAS: Bluetooth Impersonation AttackS

Daniele Antonioli

Bluetooth (BR/EDR) is a pervasive technology for wireless communication used by billions of devices. The Bluetooth standard includes a legacy authentication procedure and a secure authentication procedure, allowing devices to authenticate to each other usi ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

A Multi-Tiered Defense Model for the Security Analysis of Critical Facilities in Smart Cities

The design and development of future smart city services will usher with unprecedented creativity, a plethora of functionalities and conveniences to the urban communities. The success of smart city services depends on the assurance that security is maintai ...

2019

Distributed Cyber-Attack Detection in the Secondary Control of DC Microgrids

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pulkit Nahata, Mustafa Sahin Turan

The paper considers the problem of detecting cyber-attacks occurring in communication networks typically used in the secondary control layer of DC microgrids. The proposed distributed methodology allows for scalable monitoring of a microgrid and is able to ...

2018

Distributed Cyber-Attack Detection in the Secondary Control of DC Microgrids

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pulkit Nahata, Mustafa Sahin Turan

IEEE2018

Can Caesar Beat Galois?

Serge Vaudenay, Damian Vizár

The Competition for Authenticated Encryption: Security, Applicability and Robustness (CAESAR) has as its official goal to “identify a portfolio of authenticated ciphers that offer advantages over [the Galois-Counter Mode with AES]” and are suitable for wid ...

2018

Breaking The FF3 Format-Preserving Encryption Standard Over Small Domains

Serge Vaudenay, Fatma Betül Durak

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently published a Format-Preserving Encryption standard accepting two Feistel structure based schemes called FF1 and FF3. Particularly, FF3 is a tweakable block cipher based on an 8-round Feistel ...

2017

Some Cryptanalytic Results on Lizard

Subhadeep Banik

Lizard is a lightweight stream cipher proposed by Hamann, Krause and Meier in IACR ToSC 2017. It has a Grain-like structure with two state registers of size 90 and 31 bits. The cipher uses a 120 bit secret key and a 64 bit IV. The authors claim that Lizard ...

2017

Practical and Provably Secure Distance-Bounding

Serge Vaudenay, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa

From contactless payments to remote car unlocking, many applications are vulnerable to relay attacks. Distance bounding protocols are the main practical countermeasure against these attacks. In this paper, we present a formal analysis of SKI, which recentl ...

IOS Press2015

On Selecting the Nonce Length in Distance-Bounding Protocols

Serge Vaudenay, Christos Dimitrakakis, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa

Distance-bounding protocols form a family of challenge-response authentication protocols that have been introduced to thwart relay attacks. They enable a verifier to authenticate and to establish an upper bound on the physical distance to an untrusted prov ...

Oxford University Press2013