The Zen of Bluetooth Security (ZOBS)

Recently, I presented the ZOBS principles in a keynote at ACM WiSec'26. Thanks again to Vincent Lenders and Gerhard Hancke for the invitation!

Keynote abstract:

The Zen of Bluetooth Security (ZOBS) is a collection of Bluetooth security principles developed by the speaker to systematize seven years of research on Bluetooth security protocols. The talk explores Bluetooth security research through the lens of these principles, distills key lessons learned, and shares them with the broader wireless-security research community. The talk also pinpoints open research challenges in Bluetooth security and opens the floor for discussion of future research directions. The audience will learn about the state of the art in Bluetooth security and how to apply the ZOBS principles to offensive and defensive wireless-security research. The keynote covers eight Bluetooth BR/EDR, commonly called Bluetooth Classic (BC), and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) security papers co-authored by the speaker: BlueBrothers [8], HardaBLE [7], BLERP [6], BLUFFS [1], BLUR [5], BIAS [3], KNOB on BLE [4] and KNOB on BC [2].

Here you can find the ZOBS slides and keynote paper.

Please get in touch if you have questions or comments, or if you are working on other ZOBS principles.

Also, let me know if you (or your agents) build anything on top of it or discover something using it!