Proposal of Ad-Hoc Secure Device Pairing Method Using Similarity Between Marker Movement and Acceleration

Currently, IoT devices often use wireless technologies to communicate with each other. An example is ad-hoc device pairing such as wireless distribution of meeting materials from a PC to mobile device. The problem in this case is spoofing by an impersonator. In order to solve this problem, we proposed secure device pairing method using similarity between displacement data of a marker displayed on devices and acceleration data obtained from devices. We performed experiments to confirm similarity and whether impersonator can pair with the server. As a result, we found that similarity was low and unstable. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an extended method that marker changes at an interval. These sequence of markers displayed on the device is used to recognize the device by a camera in addition to calculation of the similarity. We performed 3 experiments to confirm the similarity displacement data and examined whether an eavesdropper outside the camera range can perform pairing. Also, we performed pairing of some device together. As a result, average similarity was higher than that of previous method and pairing of three devices succeeded at rate of about 70%.