Graduation Year
2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.S.C.S.
Degree Name
MS in Computer Science (M.S.C.S.)
Degree Granting Department
Computer Science and Engineering
Major Professor
Sriram Chellappan, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Srinivas Katkoori, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Ravi Sankar, Ph.D.
Keywords
Key generation from voice, Mobile device security, Key sharing
Abstract
In this thesis, we present results of an experimental study in order to generate a secure cryptographic key from the user’s voice which is to be shared between two mobile devices. We identified two security threats related to this problem, discussed the challenges to design the key generation/sharing mechanism, and proposed a new protocol based on bloom filters that overcomes the two main attacks by the intruder. One is when the attacker places its device in the close vicinity of the location where the user attempts to generate/share the key in order to derive the key from eavesdropping on communication messages. The second is when the attacker visually observes the experiment being performed and it tries to replicate the same experiment to reproduce the key. We present several results that demonstrate the practicality of our proposed technique in the context of communications between smart-phone
Scholar Commons Citation
Kamineni, Surya Bharat, "Experimental Analysis on the Feasibility of Voice Based Symmetric Key Generation for Embedded Devices" (2017). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/6874
