I'm proposing a method of unlocking the device by using an NFC transponder. NFC is becoming more widely adopted on handsets and as some NFC transponders have built in security features ergo "unlock with NFC" seems to be an obvious next step.
When the Android community talks about "unlocking" a phone is the assumption that this is the user stage of unlock IE what you do when you take the phone out of your pocket each time you use it? NFC fails to read quite frequently so the patch would need to include code to do fallback onto a secondary unlock mechanism IE a pin. My work is partly in the area of improving read reliability so as we move forward this will become less of an issue. Is unlock fallback something that has been considered or is due in a future version? I basically need to make a decision between writing a decent app to or submitting a patch and was hoping the community could advise. Once we have fleshed out some of the security implications I will post on android-contrib. If it helps I can ask some NFC forum advisers to share their thoughts on security on this thread but I feel I should get a general opinion on new unlocking mechanisms from the Android Security community first. Thanks John McLear Originally posted here: https://groups.google.com/group/android-platform/browse_frm/thread/48876689f8814e41/49a8d8658b21fb3d?lnk=gst&q=nfc+unlock#49a8d8658b21fb3d -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Security Discussions" group. To post to this group, send email to android-security-discuss@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-security-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-security-discuss?hl=en.
