Turning Noises to Fingerprint-Free "Credentials": Secure and Usable Drone Authentication
Chuxiong Wu, Qiang Zeng

TL;DR
This paper introduces a novel drone authentication system leveraging unique drone noises, ensuring security and usability without relying on sound fingerprints, and resilient to environmental and manipulation attacks.
Contribution
It presents the first system exploiting drone noise characteristics for secure, fingerprint-free authentication that is robust against attacks and environmental sounds.
Findings
The system is resilient to sound manipulation attacks.
It maintains high usability and security in diverse environments.
Extensive evaluation confirms robustness and practicality.
Abstract
Drones have been widely used in various services, such as delivery and surveillance. Authentication forms the foundation of the security of these services. However, drones are expensive and may carry important payloads. To avoid being captured by attackers, drones should keep a safe distance from the verifier before authentication succeeds. This makes authentication methods that only work in very close proximity not applicable. Our work leverages drone noises for authentication. While using sounds for authentication is highly usable, how to handle various attacks that manipulate sounds is an \emph{unresolved challenge}. It is also unclear how to ensure robustness under various environmental sounds. Being the first in the literature, we address the two major challenges by exploiting unique characteristics of drone noises. We thereby build an authentication system that does \emph{not}…
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Taxonomy
TopicsUser Authentication and Security Systems · Biometric Identification and Security · Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
