Shake a Secure Bluetooth Connection

heilbron writes "The Austrian researcher Rene Mayrhofer of the British Lancaster university and his colleague Hans Gellersen developed a technology to simplify a secured wireless connection of mobile devices. With the so-called shake-to-connect technology an authenticated Bluetooth connection between two mobile phones is established by rhythmic shaking. Integrated oscillation sensors, contained in some mobile phone models, form the basis. The two researchers sketched out a prototype, which is intended for Nokia mobile phones. An example is documented in this YouTube video clip. If two mobile phones are shaken together, the software in both devices registers the same shaking frequency and authenticates the radio link. The principle is summed up in a four page PDF document."

Comments

Re:Because entering a PIN is sooooo difficult

[solevita]

Entering a PIN isn't always very secure; this method could potentially provide both handsets with the same, massively long, random number. That's a little harder to attack than the usual "same as my luggage" combinations.

Re:Bluetooth Request GUI

[Doc Ruby]

My having a private conversation with the hot chick while she fends off oafs like you swarming her makes you inept, not me.