| Title | Tiek: Two-tier Authentication and Key Distribution for Wearable Devices |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2019 |
| Authors | Hylamia, Sam, Yan, Wenqing, Rohner, Christian, Voigt, Thiemo |
| Conference Name | 2019 International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob) |
| Keywords | authentication, Biomedical monitoring, Communication system security, Human Behavior, physiology, privacy, Protocols, pubcrawl, Resiliency, Scalability, wearables security, Wireless communication |
| Abstract | Wearable devices, such as implantable medical devices and smart wearables, are becoming increasingly popular with applications that vary from casual activity monitoring to critical medical uses. Unsurprisingly, numerous security vulnerabilities have been found in this class of devices. Yet, research on physical measurement-based authentication and key distribution assumes that body-worn devices are benign and uncompromised. Tiek is a novel authentication and key distribution protocol which addresses this issue. We utilize two sources of randomness to perform device authentication and key distribution simultaneously but through separate means. This creates a two-tier authorization scheme that enables devices to join the network while protecting them from each other. We describe Tiek and analyze its security. |
| DOI | 10.1109/WiMOB.2019.8923555 |
| Citation Key | hylamia_tiek_2019 |
Tiek: Two-tier Authentication and Key Distribution for Wearable Devices