Is there a Peripheral Encryption Example for the nRF52?

[Ronny Vrijelinck]

Is there a Peripheral Encryption Example for the nRF52? and can the Master Control Panel tool(3.10.0.14) be used to test the Peripheral Encryption? If i clcik the down arrow of the Bond button then i see the Encrypt selection is this implemented and usable to test Peripheral Encryption? Is there an Application note/white paper explaining the implementation of Encryption in the peripheral in more detail?

[Petter Myhre]

Most of the BLE examples in the SDK includes the device manager or the peer manager, which handles pairing, bonding and encryption.

You first bond, and then on reconnection you can re-encrypt the link with the encryption keys shared during bonding.

You can test it with Master Control Panel.

The procedure is illustrated in this MSC.

[Ronny Vrijelinck]

Is encryption only possible for a bondable device?

[Petter Myhre]

You don't have to bond to get an encrypted link. You will get an encrypted link if you pair, but if you don't bond, you will have to pair every time you connect to get an encrypted link. In Master Control Panel "Bond" is used for both pairing and bonding, while "Encrypt" is used to re-encrypt the link (if you have a bond).