BiTouch: enabling secure touch-to-access device pairing based on human body's electrical response

Yao Wang, Tao Gu, Yu Zhang, Minjie Lyu, Tom H. Luan, Hui Li

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Abstract

We present a secure device pairing approach, called BiTouch, using the human body as a conductor to generate and transmit user-specific pairing keys for advancing touch-to-access policy. BiTouch is designed based on the observation that the human body responds uniquely to electrical signals flowing through it. Built-in microphones on devices are essentially used to capture ambient sound as entropy and convert it into an electrical signal, which is subsequently transmitted by the body for device pairing. We implement BiTouch using off-the-shelf microphones and evaluate it with 31 participants. The results demonstrate that BiTouch ensures the user's legitimacy and key transmission reliability, and achieves a pairing success rate of 97.74% and an equal error rate of 2.28%.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationACM MobiCom 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
Place of PublicationNew York, NY
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages889-891
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781450391818
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2022
Event28th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom 2022 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: 17 Oct 220221 Oct 2202

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Conference

Conference28th ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom 2022
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney
Period17/10/0221/10/02

Keywords

  • ambient sound
  • body electrical response
  • device pairing

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