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, pages 1-1, 2019 (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

Name	EMail	Phone	Room
Dr. Dominik Schürmann	schuermann[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
Arne Brüsch	bruesch[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
Caglar Kaya	kaya[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
Le Nguyen Ngu Nguyen	le.ngu.nguyen[[at]]aalto.fi
Dr. Stephan Sigg	sigg[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de	+49-531-3913249
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Lars Wolf	wolf[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de	+49-531-3913288	138

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

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