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CASIN Ong — Towards Secure, Dynamic Group Management in Wireless Personal Area Networks George Fankhauser, Nathalie Weiler, Germano Caronni gfa,weiler,gec@ † Sensaco Research, Switzerland Abstract enhance other devices (e.g. SIM), perform sensitive op- erations, help manage or remember complex configura- With the advent of more and more small devices with tions; (e) Application specific, single-purpose smartlets, networking capabilities, the interest in their secure self such as fridge magnets that compile shopping lists and organisation has grown. These devices – smartlets as we talk to your mobile phone whenever you walk by. named them – may have multiple transient ownerships Other “small” digital gadgets such as mobile phones, and the resulting trust environment can become quite media players, cameras, PDAs, etc. still tend to be man- complex. Our paper takes a look at a fictious next gen- aged directly by their owners. However, there is no dis- eration casino and some necessary hardware as an il- tinct line between these classes of device and one could lustration, and examines what operations (such as cryp- expect to see more devices that work together and share tographically secure group management) could become newly created services among each other. Generally, all relevant in solving the problems observed there. these examples are part of pervasive computing and net- working, or in its final consequence, they will