Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development

Savio Sciancalepore

Roberto Di Pietro

Gabriele Oligeri

Simone Raponi

Disclosed herein are methods and systems that can be used by an end-user to verify both the identity of a remote service () and the authenticity of a response provided by the remote service (), even if the first authentication arrangement () used to interact with the remote service () is compromised. The end-user requests the remote service () to provide evidence of its identity, in the form of potentially different authentication materials. The authentication materials are then verified independently on each additional authentication arrangements () and used to determine the authenticity of the response from the remote service ().

Methods and systems for verifying the authenticity of a remote service

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for enhanced wireless communication security. The preambles used for the identification of an upcoming wireless communication may be periodically changed (e.g., dynamic), on a time basis, based on a secret key function shared between the communicating parties. In this way, only the intended parties are able to recognize the start of an ongoing communication, synchronize with the transmitters, and access the information contained therein. An attacker, being unaware of the specific preamble sequence used for the synchronization, will not recognize the pattern of the communication, and thus will be unable to recognize when communications are ongoing. Additional authentication measures may also be implemented with the transmissions.

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