January 2005
Intermediate to advanced
404 pages
12h 29m
English
This chapter presents security techniques used in personal area networks. We will see how the ideas presented in Chaps. 12 and 13 are applied on the Bluetooth wireless personal area network (WPAN), specifically how data are protected via encryption, how authentication is performed (including key exchange), and what limitations and problems are present in the design.
Wireless personal area networks (WPANs) provide connectivity between nodes that are relatively close, within 10 m. WPANs function as an alternative to a cable, e.g., linking a wireless headphone to a portable CD player. Bluetooth is an industry standard protocol for WPANs and is now developed as one of the IEEE ...
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