GTA02 MAC addresses

Marcel Holtmann marcel at holtmann.org
Wed Jan 23 17:33:31 CET 2008


Hallo Harald,

> Do you see any problems if the Bluetooth MAC address can be
> predicted if somebody has seen the WiFI MAC Address (or vice versa)?

there is an issue with this. Since it makes it easy to clone and drive
various attacks. However all devices that I know have the Bluetooth
address with an offset of one to the WiFi address.

So having a full random address assignment would be great, but might be
a little bit of too much overhead. We do have a risk with predicted
addresses, but you not more than the address to drive successfully any
attack based on that.

Regards

Marcel






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