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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 17:17:55 -0700
From: "Robert Hulvey" <rwhulvey broadcom.com>
To: cfrgietf.org
Subject: [Cfrg] Invitation to review Bluetooth Simple
Pairing draft
specification
Hello,
My name is Robert Hulvey and I am a Systems Engineer with
Broadcom Corp.
working on Bluetooth products. I participate in several
groups within the
Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) including the Core
Specification
Working Group (CSWG), the Human Interface Device (HID)
Working Group, and
the Bluetooth Architecture Review Board (BARB). Within the
CSWG, we have
been developing a feature called Simple Pairing to address
the weaknesses
which were part of the original Bluetooth specification's
pairing
mechanism. Our hope is that the new pairing method will be
FIPS compliant,
and as such we would appreciate your review and feedback on
whether we are
on track to achieve this goal. "Pairing" refers
to the method of
associating 2 devices so that they can communicate via the
Bluetooth
wireless protocol.
Note that Simple Pairing is just a first step, and does
nothing to change
the Bluetooth encryption mechanism (the Massey-Rueppel
stream cipher, also
known within the specification as E0). We anticipate
changing to AES in
counter-mode, similar to what WiFi currently uses, in a
future version of
the specification.
The following is a link to a whitepaper which has been made
publicly
available for the express purpose of encouraging outside
review of the the
draft specification. Please feel free to forward this to
any other
interested parties.
See:
<http://www.bluetooth.com/Bluetooth/Ap
ply/Technology/Research/Simple_Pairing
.htm>
http://www.bluetooth.com/Bluetooth/A
pply/Technology/Research/Simple_Pairing.
htm
Please send any feedback to the address shown in the
document (
<mailto:radio-feedbackbluetooth.org>
radio-feedbackbluetooth.org), but
please also copy me at rwhulveybroadcom.com.
Thank you for your time.
Best Regards,
-Rob
Robert W. Hulvey
Principal Systems Engineer Broadcom Corporation
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