Publications by Daniele Antonioli

On the Insecurity of Vehicles Against Protocol-Level Bluetooth Threats

Cars are some of the most security-critical consumer devices. On the one hand, owners expect rich infotainment features, including audio, hands-free calls, contact management, or navigation through their connected mobile phone. On the other hand, the infot ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022

BLURtooth: Exploiting Cross-Transport Key Derivation in Bluetooth Classic and Bluetooth Low Energy

Mathias Josef Payer, Daniele Antonioli

Bluetooth is a pervasive wireless technology specified in an open standard. The standard defines Bluetooth Classic (BT) for high-throughput wireless services and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) very low-power ones. The standard also specifies security mechanism ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

LIGHTBLUE: Automatic Profile-Aware Debloating of Bluetooth Stacks

Mathias Josef Payer, Daniele Antonioli, Duo Xu

The Bluetooth standard is ubiquitously supported by computers, smartphones, and IoT devices. Due to its complexity, implementations require large codebases, which are prone to security vulnerabilities, such as the recently discovered BlueBorne and BadBluet ...

USENIX ASSOC2021

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

Early evidence of effectiveness of digital contact tracing for SARS-CoV-2 in Switzerland

James Richard Larus, Marcel Salathé, Mathias Josef Payer, Edouard Bugnion, Carmela González Troncoso, Theresa Stadler, Wouter Lueks, Daniele Antonioli

In the wake of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), contact tracing has become a key element of strategies to control the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Given the rapid and intense spread of SARS-CoV ...

E M H SWISS MEDICAL PUBLISHERS LTD2020

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