Difference between erasing bonds and disabling white listing?

[Paul K]

The device advertises.

The phone scans.

The device use white listing and only allow one peer, the phone.

What's the difference between erasing bonds and disabling white listing?

Is there a reason to ever do one but not the other?

[Simonr]

Hi

Is there a reason you want to use whitelisting if you only have allowed one peer to connect to it? If you do bonding I assume there is some encryption/security measures so you're only able to pair with devices you know what is.

As for the difference between the two. The bonding information consists of key information between stored on the two specific devices that have bonded. A whitelist is a list of known devices that are known, so if your whitelist is specific to device names, any device with that name can connect to it, and there is no keys between the two devices to make sure it's only that specific device that connects.

Best regards,

Simon

[Paul K]

Understood. I probably don't need whitelisting.