Personal Servers as Digital Keys

  • Authors:
  • Allan Beaufour;Philippe Bonnet

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • PERCOM '04 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'04)
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Personal servers are an attractive concept: People carryaround a device that takes care of computing, storage andcommunication on their behalf in a pervasive computing environment.So far personal servers have mainly been consideredfor accessing personal information. In this paper, weconsider personal servers in the context of a digital key system.Digital keys are an interesting alternative to physicalkeys for mail or good delivery companies whose employeesaccess tens of private buildings every day. In this paper,we present a digital key system tailored for the current incarnationof personal servers, i.e., a Bluetooth-enabled mobilephone. We describe how to use Bluetooth for this application,we present a simple authentication protocol and weprovide a detailled analysis of response time and energy consumptionon the mobile phone.