Dual channel security

Abstract

Defying attacks and vulnerabilities has been a challenge since the beginning of modern technology and especially after the gigantic leap of the online market system. Developers tend to aim at protection against theft in a new binary world that opened up a vast field for hacking and breaching personal information. In this study, we propose a dual channel security (DCS) model which is a novel key agreement protocol designed to overcome vulnerabilities and attacks that are arising from well-known protocols. It targets the weaknesses of communication mechanisms commonly used in Diffie-Hellman key exchange (DH), transport layer security (TLS) and near field communication (NFC). Moreover, it eliminates the arduous and costly processes of establishing a secure structure as in public key infrastructure (PKI) and is suitable for two kinds of applications: point of sale terminals (POS) and short-range wireless interconnection of mobile devices (D2D).