publication . Preprint . 2016

Are wearable devices ready for HTTPS? Measuring the cost of secure communication protocols on wearable devices

Kolamunna, Harini; Chauhan, Jagmohan; Hu, Yining; Thilakarathna, Kanchana; Perino, Diego; Makaroff, Dwight; Seneviratne, Aruna;
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  • Published: 15 Aug 2016
Abstract
The majority of available wearable devices require communication with Internet servers for data analysis and storage, and rely on a paired smartphone to enable secure communication. However, wearable devices are mostly equipped with WiFi network interfaces, enabling direct communication with the Internet. Secure communication protocols should then run on these wearables itself, yet it is not clear if they can be efficiently supported. In this paper, we show that wearable devices are ready for direct and secure Internet communication by means of experiments with both controlled and Internet servers. We observe that the overall energy consumption and communication...
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free text keywords: Computer Science - Cryptography and Security, C.4, C.2.2, C.2.0
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