LE Secure Connections (ECDH) on S130

[Dominik]

Is the ECDH encrypted key exchange supported on the new S130? If not, when can we expect it to be available?

I am surprised this is not given a higher priority, since now the only safe solution is to use OOB, which requires additional hardware. The other two solutions, where the key exchange over the air is unencrypted, is essentially useless. See here and video here.

[Dominik]

Nice point, reducing the TX power is a good idea. I will keep that in mind for our application! But I don't follow you in your last statement. Since vendors are lacking OOB support, wouldn't that be all the more reason to have LE secure connections which will then spare the necessity for OOB?

[Ulrich Myhre]

Indeed, I was just surprised that mobile vendors basically ignored OOB pairing for so long, but then very quickly accepted a new security mode (and still doesn't support OOB). Not that the community in general want to use it. To me it seemed like the mobile world didn't really care that much about security, but I guess they are just selective in what to include. (nRF52 supports NFC, which is perfect for OOB pairing - among other things).

[Vahid Shirvani]

Any news? Could you update us on the progress? Do you know when we are going to get the LE Secure Connections? This is a crucial feature that is necessary otherwise the encrypted connection could be compromised by the passive eavesdropper.