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Re: Bluetooth cracked further

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Fri Jun 3 14:36:33 2005

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Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 12:58:47 -0500
From: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
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To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com

On Jun 3, 2005, at 11:55, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 2) They also have a way of forcing pairing to happen, by impersonating
>    one of the devices and saying "oops! I need to pair again!" to the
>    other.

Do the devices then pair again without user intervention, re-using the 
PIN that paired them initially?

I always imagined I could use a lame PIN if I was far from any 
eavesdroppers...


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