Security Weaknesses in Bluetooth

By Markus Jakobsson, Susanne Wetzel. The Cryptographer's Track at RSA Conference, 2001

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems

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Citations in the corpus

TinySec: a link layer security architecture for wireless sensor networks (2004, methodology): “The Bluetooth specification also includes a cryptographic security mechanism, but this has also been shown to be flawed [25].”
RFID security and privacy: a research survey (2006, background): “It affects many other wireless devices, such as Bluetooth-enabled ones [51].”
Minimalist Cryptography for Low-Cost RFID Tags (2004, background): “Jakobsson and Wetzel have pointed out a similar, but potentially much more pervasive threat to privacy in the authentication protocol for Bluetooth, a communication scheme that promises to proliferate into a wide range of electronic devices [20].”
Security and Cooperation in Wireless Networks (2007, background): “Examples of more involved MITM attacks against Bluetooth [354] equipped devices can be found in [205] and [240].”
Security and Privacy in Radio-Frequency Identification Devices (2003, background): “Location privacy risks present in Bluetooth technology and relevant to RFID systems are addressed by Jakobsson and Wetzel in [51].”
The quest for security in mobile ad hoc networks (2001, background): “In the framework of Bluetooth, the authors of [15] show how the activity of a victim can be observed by a set of devices installed in strategic places by an attacker.”
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless protocols: a survey and a comparison (2005, methodology): “This is a superior method with respect to the WEP protocol used in Wi-Fi, even if it has its own weaknesses [ 18 ].”
Security and Privacy Aspects of Low-Cost Radio Frequency Identification Systems (2003, background): “Location privacy risks present in Bluetooth technology and relevant to RFID systems are addressed in [12].”
Talking to Strangers: Authentication in Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks (2002, background): “Aside from usability issues, Bluetooth is plagued by a wide variety of other security flaws [10].”
Jamming Attacks and Anti-Jamming Strategies in Wireless Networks: A Comprehensive Survey (2021, background): “, [147]–[150]), the research effort on investigating jamming attacks for Bluetooth communications remains very limited.”