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		yencabulator 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Begining of the End for ANT+ Wireless Good handshakes are actually hard. There's no UI on these gadgets, and often not even a single button! Consider going to a public gym and wanting your heartrate to show on the exercise bike -- you'll be pairing it right there, in public.

Dylan16807 11 months ago [–]

Reducing the risk to handshake is already pretty good, but also that's going to be quite hard to MitM. Just use diffie-hellman.

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