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Shake-n-shack : enabling secure data exchange between Smart Wearables via handshakes

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Shen, Yiran, Yang, Fengyuan, Du, Bowen, Xu, Weitao, Luo, Chengwen and Wen, Hongkai (2018) Shake-n-shack : enabling secure data exchange between Smart Wearables via handshakes. In: PERCOM18, Athens, Greece, 19-23 Mar 2018. Published in: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) doi:10.1109/PERCOM.2018.8444579 ISSN 2474-249X.

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Abstract

Since ancient Greece, handshaking has been commonly practiced between two people as a friendly gesture to express trust and respect, or form a mutual agreement. In this paper, we show that such physical contact can be used to bootstrap secure cyber contact between the smart devices worn by users. The key observation is that during handshaking, although belonged to two different users, the two hands involved in the shaking events are often rigidly connected, and therefore exhibit very similar motion patterns. We propose a novel Shake-n-Shack system, which harvests motion data during user handshaking from the wrist worn smart devices such as smartwatches or fitness bands, and exploits the matching motion patterns to generate symmetric keys on both parties. The generated keys can be then used to establish a secure communication channel for exchanging data between devices. This provides a much more natural and user-friendly alternative for many applications, e.g., exchanging/sharing contact details, friending on social networks, or even making payments, since it doesn't involve extra bespoke hardware, nor require the users to perform pre-defined gestures. We implement the proposed Shake-n-Shack 1 system on off-the-shelf smartwatches, and extensive evaluation shows that it can reliably generate 128-bit symmetric keys just after around 1s of handshaking (with success rate >99%), and is resilient to real-time mimicking attacks: in our experiments the Equal Error Rate (EER) is only 1.6% on average. We also show that the proposed Shake-n-Shack system can be extremely lightweight, and is able to run in-situ on the resource-constrained smartwatches without incurring excessive resource consumption.

Item Type: Conference Item (Paper)
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science
Journal or Publication Title: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom)
Publisher: IEEE
ISSN: 2474-249X
Official Date: 23 August 2018
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DateEvent
23 August 2018Published
15 December 2017Accepted
DOI: 10.1109/PERCOM.2018.8444579
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): © 2018 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 10 January 2018
Date of first compliant Open Access: 7 February 2019
Conference Paper Type: Paper
Title of Event: PERCOM18
Type of Event: Conference
Location of Event: Athens, Greece
Date(s) of Event: 19-23 Mar 2018
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