Timeline for Difference between Secure Simple Pairing and Secure Connections in Bluetooth?
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| Apr 19, 2023 at 7:53 | comment | converted from answer | Lars | @Michael states that BR/EDR Secure Connections were introduced in 4.2 while later in his detailed explanation, he states 4.1, which is correct. 4.2 is correct for BLE. | |
| Nov 8, 2016 at 7:15 | comment | added | Michael | Please see security.stackexchange.com/a/142104/38069 | |
| Nov 6, 2016 at 20:03 | comment | added | Brian Brown | Ok, thank you again. The last question, if you do not mind. BTW, its quite hard to find exact information in specification, at least for me. Anyway, is this: pasteboard.co/o57iHWlJJ.png a good comparison for LE security mechanisms? I did some reading, and it seems ok, but I'm not quite sure. | |
| Nov 6, 2016 at 18:26 | comment | added | Michael | @BrianBrown, for a large part, but not entirely: LE SSP does not use ECDH, whereas BR/EDR SSP (table) does use ECDH. LE Secure connections and BR/EDR Secure connections are equal, but LE SSP and BR/EDR SSP are not (see the two bullet points which list the differences in my answer). (I even think that there's also a difference in message authentication: LE uses authenticated encryption in both modes, whereas I don't think BR/EDR does in SSP.) | |
| Nov 6, 2016 at 18:16 | comment | added | Brian Brown | You pasted the table where you compared pairing methods for BR/EDR. I'm just wondering, if you would delete the second column from this table (the one with the Legacy header), such table could be used to compare security mechanisms and available paring methods in LE, right? | |
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| Oct 31, 2016 at 7:31 | comment | added | Michael | No, they are not. You basically again have three categories: Legacy (insecure), Secure Simple Pairing (pretty secure), and Secure connections (secure). These categories contain the methods you refer to, except for the Legacy category (which only contains the PIN method if I'm not mistaken). Section 5.2 really explains it well on only 3 pages. | |
| Oct 28, 2016 at 9:31 | comment | added | yak | Just one question about the pairing methods (Just works, OOB, etc.) are they the same in each pairing model? | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 11:28 | comment | added | yak | Thank you, I've read the specification but it was somehow not very clear to me (those terms, lots of them ...) so I was overwhelmed by the information given. Your explanation is clear and simple. Thank you. | |
| Oct 24, 2016 at 10:03 | history | answered | Michael | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
