Bluetooth Security

Bluetooth provides three mutually exclusive modes of built-in security: unsecured, service secure, and link secure. Unsecured connections are completely unsecured, and are used to provide services to any Bluetooth device. Service secure connections provide authentication for services that require knowledge of 'who' is at the other end of the link. Link secure connections provide authentication, authorization, and encryption (ciphering of plain text).

Authentication in Bluetooth is used during the establishment of a connection, while encryption is used during the lifetime of a connection. Encryption is configurable to meet local government regulations.

A full description and discussion of Bluetooth security is beyond the scope of this paper. For further information on this topic, visit www.AnywhereYouGo.com or www.bluetooth.com