Device-to-Device Pairing based on Human Gait
How can we provide secure pairing of devices worn on the same body that does not need any user interaction while still providing protection against active Man-in-the-Middle attacks? Instead of using passwords or numeric comparison, we thought about other secrets which could be obtained on both devices to protect the pairing process. Our idea is to record the user’s gait - the individual unique pattern how someone walks - and use it for authentication. [Read more]
Partners
This project is done in cooperation with the Ambient Intelligence work group at Aalto University.
Publications
- Arne Brüsch, Ngu Nguyen, Dominik Schürmann, Stephan Sigg and Lars Wolf: Security Properties of Gait for Mobile Device Pairing, in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 19, No. 3, pages 697-710, March 2020 (schuermann:tmc:2019, DOI, BibTeX)
- Dominik Schürmann, Arne Brüsch, Ngu Nguyen, Stephan Sigg and Lars Wolf: Moves like Jagger: Exploiting variations in instantaneous gait for spontaneous device pairing, in Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Vol. 47, pages 1 - 12, April 2018 (schuermann:pmc:2018, DOI, BibTeX)
- Ngu Nguyen, Caglar Yuce Kaya, Dominik Schürmann, Arne Brüsch, Stephan Sigg and Lars Wolf: Demo of BANDANA - Body Area Network Device-to-device Authentication Using Natural gAit, March 2018 (schuermann:percomdemo:2018, BibTeX, Poster, Accepted for publication at: IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops))
- Dominik Schürmann, Arne Brüsch, Stephan Sigg and Lars Wolf: BANDANA - Body Area Network Device-to-device Authentication using Natural gAit, in IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), pages 190-196, March 2017 (schuermann:percom:2017, DOI, BibTeX, Slides)
- Dominik Schürmann: Establishing Trust in Heterogeneous Networks, in IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), pages 107-108, March 2017 (schuermann:phdforum:2017, DOI, BibTeX)
Project members
Student Thesis
If you are interested in writing a thesis regarding this project, please feel free to contact Dr. Dominik Schürmann.
| Title | Type | Supervisor | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Implementation of BANDANA on Android | Project Thesis | Dr. Dominik Schürmann | finished |
| On Quantization Schemes And Security Aspects For Biometrical Key Generation | Master Thesis | Dr. Dominik Schürmann | finished |
