> > Devil's advocate: under what use case does a user carry around a phone > that is powered off (if the battery is not dead)? >
Jeff, I think John meant just "screen on". In fact, even this is not enough- NFC polling is activated after unlocking the screen. John, seems like somebody made an app like this: http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2012/02/this-app-can-unlock-your-android-lock-screen-using-nfc-tags.html I don't know if it works. W dniu czwartek, 6 grudnia 2012 17:43:50 UTC+1 użytkownik John McLear napisał: > > 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-security-discuss/-/kbnqoDwDF5oJ. 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.
