Location-aware sign-on and key exchange using attribute-based encryption and Bluetooth beacons

Author

Portnoi, Marcos ; Chien-Chung Shen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

14-16 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

405

Lastpage

406

Abstract

This work presents a mobile sign-on scheme, which utilizes Bluetooth Low Energy beacons for location awareness and Attribute-Based Encryption for expressive, broadcast-style key exchange. Bluetooth Low Energy beacons broadcast encrypted messages with encoded access policies. Within range of the beacons, a user with appropriate attributes is able to decrypt the broadcast message and obtain parameters that allow the user to perform a short or simplified login. The effect is a “traveling” sign-on that accompanies the user throughout different locations.

Keywords

Bluetooth; broadcast communication; cryptography; encoding; mobile computing; mobility management (mobile radio); access policy encoding; attribute-based encryption; bluetooth low energy beacon; broadcast message decryption; encrypted message broadcasting; expressive broadcast-style key exchange; location-aware sign-on scheme; mobile sign-on scheme; Bluetooth; Conferences; Encryption; Mobile radio mobility management; Protocols; attribute-based encryption; beacon; bluetooth low energy; key exchange; location awareness; short sign-on; simplified login;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2013 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

National Harbor, MD

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CNS.2013.6682750

Filename

6682750