TY - GEN
T1 - Near field authentication for smart devices
AU - Li, Lingjun
AU - Zhao, Xinxin
AU - Xue, Guoliang
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Near field communication (NFC) systems provide a good location-limited channel so that many security systems can use it to force the participants to stay close to each other. Unfortunately, only a small number of smart devices in the market are equipped with NFC chips that are essential for NFC systems. The purpose of this paper is to provide the same feature, called near field authentication (NFA), without using NFC chips. We propose an easy-to-use system to achieve NFA by using human finger movement on the touch screens of two nearby smart devices. Our system does not need any prior secret information shared between two devices and generates the same high-entropy cryptographic key for both devices in a successful authentication. The efficiency of the system is demonstrated by our evaluation on a Motorola Droid smartphone.
AB - Near field communication (NFC) systems provide a good location-limited channel so that many security systems can use it to force the participants to stay close to each other. Unfortunately, only a small number of smart devices in the market are equipped with NFC chips that are essential for NFC systems. The purpose of this paper is to provide the same feature, called near field authentication (NFA), without using NFC chips. We propose an easy-to-use system to achieve NFA by using human finger movement on the touch screens of two nearby smart devices. Our system does not need any prior secret information shared between two devices and generates the same high-entropy cryptographic key for both devices in a successful authentication. The efficiency of the system is demonstrated by our evaluation on a Motorola Droid smartphone.
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U2 - 10.1109/INFCOM.2013.6566798
DO - 10.1109/INFCOM.2013.6566798
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84883068295
SN - 9781467359467
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
SP - 375
EP - 379
BT - 2013 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 2013
T2 - 32nd IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, IEEE INFOCOM 2013
Y2 - 14 April 2013 through 19 April 2013
ER -