Measuring usability: are effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction really correlated?
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Smart-Its Friends: A Technique for Users to Easily Establish Connections between Smart Artefacts
UbiComp '01 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
The Resurrecting Duckling: Security Issues for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Security Protocols
Public-key support for group collaboration
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
Seeing-Is-Believing: Using Camera Phones for Human-Verifiable Authentication
SP '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Secure Device Pairing based on a Visual Channel (Short Paper)
SP '06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Loud and Clear: Human-Verifiable Authentication Based on Audio
ICDCS '06 Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
A Human-Verifiable Authentication Protocol Using Visible Laser Light
ARES '07 Proceedings of the The Second International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security
Mind your manners: socially appropriate wireless key establishment for groups
WiSec '08 Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Wireless network security
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GAnGS: gather, authenticate 'n group securely
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HAPADEP: Human-Assisted Pure Audio Device Pairing
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Using audio in secure device pairing
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SPATE: small-group PKI-less authenticated trust establishment
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Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
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PERCOM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
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Provably secure password-authenticated key exchange using Diffie-Hellman
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PERVASIVE'07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Pervasive computing
Usability analysis of secure pairing methods
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Efficient device pairing using "Human-comparable" synchronized audiovisual patterns
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SAS-based group authentication and key agreement protocols
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SAS-Based authenticated key agreement
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Pairing devices for social interactions: a comparative usability evaluation
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Usability of display-equipped RFID tags for security purposes
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CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Secure ad hoc trust initialization and key management in wireless body area networks
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
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How groups of users associate wireless devices
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
SafeSlinger: easy-to-use and secure public-key exchange
Proceedings of the 19th annual international conference on Mobile computing & networking
Can Jannie verify? Usability of display-equipped RFID tags for security purposes
Journal of Computer Security - Research in Computer Security and Privacy: Emerging Trends
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A fairly common modern setting entails users, each in possession of a personal wireless device, wanting to communicate securely, via their devices. If these users (and their devices) have no prior association, a new security context must be established. In order to prevent potential attacks, the initial context (association) establishment process must involve only the intended devices and their users. A number of methods for initial secure association of two devices have been proposed; their usability factors have been explored and compared extensively. However, a more challenging problem of initial secure association of a group of devices (and users) has not received much attention. Although a few secure group association methods have been proposed, their usability aspects have not been studied, especially, in a comparative manner. This paper discusses desirable features and evaluation criteria for secure group association, identifies suitable methods and presents a comparative usability study. Results show that some simple methods (e.g., peer- or leader-based number comparisons) are quite attractive for small groups, being fast, reasonably secure and well-received by users.