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DEMO: Attaching InternalBlue to the Proprietary macOS IOBluetooth Framework

Cryptography and Security 2020-06-01 v1
Authors: Davide Toldo , Jiska Classen , Matthias Hollick
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Abstract

In this demo, we provide an overview of the macOS Bluetooth stack internals and gain access to undocumented low-level interfaces. We leverage this knowledge to add macOS support to the InternalBlue firmware modification and wireless experimentation framework.

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@article{arxiv.2005.14606,
  title  = {DEMO: Attaching InternalBlue to the Proprietary macOS IOBluetooth Framework},
  author = {Davide Toldo and Jiska Classen and Matthias Hollick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.14606},
  year   = {2020}
}

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13th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks

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