LightGuard: Transparent WiFi Security via Physical-Layer LiFi Key Bootstrapping
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| author | Xu, Shiqi Du, Yuyang Zhang, Mingyue Cui, Hongwei Liew, Soung Chang |
| author_facet | Xu, Shiqi Du, Yuyang Zhang, Mingyue Cui, Hongwei Liew, Soung Chang |
| contents | WiFi is inherently vulnerable to eavesdropping because RF signals may penetrate many physical boundaries, such as walls and floors. LiFi, by contrast, is an optical method confined to line-of-sight and blocked by opaque surfaces. We present LightGuard, a dual-link architecture built on this insight: cryptographic key establishment can be offloaded from WiFi to a physically confined LiFi channel to mitigate the risk of key exposure over RF. LightGuard derives session keys over a LiFi link and installs them on the WiFi interface, ensuring cryptographic material never traverses the open RF medium. A prototype with off-the-shelf WiFi NICs and our LiFi transceiver frontend validates the design. |
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| spellingShingle | LightGuard: Transparent WiFi Security via Physical-Layer LiFi Key Bootstrapping Xu, Shiqi Du, Yuyang Zhang, Mingyue Cui, Hongwei Liew, Soung Chang Cryptography and Security Hardware Architecture Networking and Internet Architecture WiFi is inherently vulnerable to eavesdropping because RF signals may penetrate many physical boundaries, such as walls and floors. LiFi, by contrast, is an optical method confined to line-of-sight and blocked by opaque surfaces. We present LightGuard, a dual-link architecture built on this insight: cryptographic key establishment can be offloaded from WiFi to a physically confined LiFi channel to mitigate the risk of key exposure over RF. LightGuard derives session keys over a LiFi link and installs them on the WiFi interface, ensuring cryptographic material never traverses the open RF medium. A prototype with off-the-shelf WiFi NICs and our LiFi transceiver frontend validates the design. |
| title | LightGuard: Transparent WiFi Security via Physical-Layer LiFi Key Bootstrapping |
| topic | Cryptography and Security Hardware Architecture Networking and Internet Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01092 |