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Poster: mimicry attacks against wireless link signature

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Yao Liu,

Peng NingAuthors Info & Claims

CCS '11: Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Computer and communications security

Pages 801 - 804

https://doi.org/10.1145/2046707.2093497

Published: 17 October 2011 Publication History

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Wireless link signature is a physical layer authentication mechanism, which uses the multi-path effect between a transmitter and a receiver to provide authentication of wireless signals. We identify a new attack, called mimicry attack, against the wireless link signature scheme in [7]. It is assumed in the past that an attacker cannot "spoof" an arbitrary link signature and that the attacker will not have the same link signature at the receiver unless it is at exactly the same location as the legitimate transmitter. However, we show that an attacker can forge an arbitrary link signature as long as it knows the legitimate signal at the receiver's location, and the attacker does not have to be at exactly the same location as the legitimate transmitter in order to forge its link signature.

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CCS '11: Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Computer and communications security

October 2011

742 pages

ISBN:9781450309486

DOI:10.1145/2046707

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Yan Chen
Northwestern University, USA
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Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
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Vitaly Shmatikov
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