Content-Sharing for Dummies: A Secure and Usable Mechanism in Wi-Fi Infrastructure Home Networks

Abstract

This paper proposes a content-sharing mechanism, which is both secure and usable for wireless guest devices. It is very difficult for average users to allow a guest device to share its content with the users’ devices supporting the principle of least privilege in the current Wi-Fi infrastructure home network environment. As a result, most people do not configure the security feature of their devices. The proposed mechanism frees users from security and tedious operations, thus enabling secure content sharing by a simple and intuitive user interaction via just one touch. Our evaluation shows that the proposed mechanism is secure and usable. Keywords-