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Impersonation with the Echo Protocol

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 نشر من قبل Yoo Chung
 تاريخ النشر 2005
  مجال البحث الهندسة المعلوماتية
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The Echo protocol tries to do secure location verification using physical limits imposed by the speeds of light and sound. While the protocol is able to guarantee that a certain object is within a certain region, it cannot ensure the authenticity of further messages from the object without using cryptography. This paper describes an impersonation attack against the protocol based on this weakness. It also describes a couple of approaches which can be used to defend against the attack.



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