The Not So Wonderful World of Bluetooth Security: A One Byte Encryption Key?

Unfortunately, our Internet is often just full of the same stories echoed endlessly, and there’s not much room for those with original thinking. It is a place full of the same old corporates — and their technical leads — just telling us the same old messages, and without any originality. There are, though, some people on the Internet, who never fail in getting you to think in new ways.

So, along with Bruce Schneier, Matthew Green [here] is one of my favouriates in making me think about things. He’s a smart guy who knows so much about his subject — cryptography —but sees our world being build with such poor practice.

To me, Matthew the perfect role model of a trusted academic … someone who you can trust with their option. He’s passionate about his subject and trips easily into parody and humour. And so this week, I had to smile when I saw this:

Basically it a long-running saga about the “cook your own” cryptography that some standards agencies push out. Bluetooth, itself, has a very poor track record for…