Saturday, October 29, 2011

BlueSniff: Eve meets Alice and Bluetooth

BlueSniff: Eve meets Alice and Bluetooth

First, we show that the Bluetooth packets have no confidentiality properties. Specifically we demonstrate how data can be unwhitened and the hopping sequence calculated. Prior work has shown how the data can be decrypted if necessary [14]. Second, we show that the undiscoverable mode does not provide access control to master devices, nor protects the secrecy of their MAC address. We are able to determine the complete MAC address of these devices. Finally, all our work was done using GNU Radio and we therefore provide the first open-source Bluetooth sniffer, free from any licensing restrictions.