Attacks on Bluetooth and its security: A Comprehensive Literature Review
Samta Gajbhiye, Sanjeev Karmakar, Monisha Sharma, Sanjay Kumar Sharma · The Journal of applied sciences research · 2015
Bluetooth technology is used primarily to establish wireless personal area networks. Exponential growth of the volume of Bluetooth-enabled devices indicates that it has become a popular way of wireless interconnections for exchanging information. However, man in the middle attacks against unsecured Bluetooth implementations can provide attackers with unauthorized access to sensitive information. It is a challenging task for researchers to provide a complete secure Bluetooth device. However, extensive contributions have been achieved. A comprehensive literature review of worldwide contributions from 1999 to 2014 has been carried out to analyze the Bluetooth attacks in real scenario and to identify the security feature of Secure Simple Pairing protocol in of Bluetooth v4.0+ low energy device. It has been found that the SSP introduced Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems in Bluetooth which are more secure than the previous mathematical technique based on discrete logarithm problem. The complete security analysis of Bluetooth 4.0+ low energy, man in the middle attacks on Bluetooth enabled devices, applications of elliptic curve cryptographic technique & its hardness is presented through this broad review article.