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Distance bounding refers to a class of protocols where a verifying party (verifier) measures an upper bound on the physical distance to the proving party (prover).
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Distance bounding protocols were first introduced by Stefan Brands and David Chaum as a solution to distance fraud and mafia fraud attacks [1]. Distance fraud attacks are attacks in which a prover pretends to be closer to the verifier than it really is, whereas mafia fraud attacks are those in which an attacker impersonates a party by relaying messages from that party to the verifier. A number of distance bounding protocols later followed that specifically considered additional security properties like location privacy [4], and performance issues like robustness to message loss [3] and efficient mutual distance bounding [2]. The feasibility of the implementations of distance bounding protocols was investigated in the context of ultrasonic [6] and radio communication [5].
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Capkun, S. (2011). Security of Distance Bounding Protocols. In: van Tilborg, H.C.A., Jajodia, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5906-5_62
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