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Analyzing the Security of Bluetooth Low Energy
Abstract
Internet of Things devices have spread to near ubiquity this decade. All around us now lies an invisible mesh of communication from devices embedded in seemingly everything. Inevitably some of that communication flying around our heads will contain data that must be protected or otherwise shielded from tampering. The responsibility to protect this sensitive information from malicious actors as it travels through the air then falls upon the standards used to communicate this data. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is one of these standards, the aim of this paper is to put its security standards to test. By attempting to exploit its vulnerabilities we can see how secure this standard really is. In this paper, we present steps for analyzing the security of BLE devices using open-source hardware and software.
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“Chatzoglou et al. [66] proposed that when an attacker can access a device at the physical level, since the LoRa terminal device contains a radio module and a host microcontroller unit, the radio communicates with the host microcontroller through the UART or SPI interface. For example, if both devices use the UART interface, the interface can be used to eavesdrop on all key exchanges, and the AttaC”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sevier, S., & Tekeoglu, A.
- Affiliations
- SUNY Polytechnic Institute (US)
- ORCID
- Tekeoglu, Ali
- Venue
- 2019 International Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication (ICEIC)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2019-01
- Pages
- 1-5
- OpenAlex
- W2944597984
- Cited by
- 18
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 2.38
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication (ICEIC) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Hardware and Architecture › Security and Verification in Computing
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Cryptographic Implementations and Security
- Keywords
- Bluetooth Low Energy, Internet of Things security, security analysis, open-source hardware, open source software
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