MITM protection is only possible with PIN-entry or with OOB data of which OOB is not supported in the CoreBluetooth API. If you only perform a yes/no pairing you wont be able to access characteristics with encryption required. however, you will be able to resolve the private address that hanges every 10-15 mins and can reconnect to the iPhone later, even if it was wiped to factory defaults in between :-)

On 08.01.2014, at 16:17, "Ringwald Matthias" <mringwal@inf.ethz.ch> wrote:

Hi Anand

I’m not sure I understand you question but I was able to use Passkey bonding with my device and iOS 6 and 7 without joining the MfI program. I just configured my device to support bonding and MITM protection and that it provides a keyboard or a display. Then, if iOS tries to read an attribute that requires encryption or authentication, the bonding process would start.

best matthias

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On 08.01.2014, at 14:38, Anand Singh <anandfortech@icloud.com> wrote:

Are you sure that you do not need to support Bluetooth connection using MFi based program? As far as I know, only MFi based can support the authentication (i.e. when pairing, it asks for confirmation)

Best, Anand

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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 19:07:58 +0000 From: Ringwald Matthias <mringwal@inf.ethz.ch> To: "bluetooth-dev@lists.apple.com" <bluetooth-dev@lists.apple.com> Subject: BLE Authentication and Authorization Message-ID: <F4B0342E-36F6-4B63-9A3F-124E0FFF3973@inf.ethz.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hi

As far as I know, iOS CoreBluetooth only supports Just Works bonding and therefor a connection cannot be authenticated. Are authenticated connections possible on OS X?

If not, what do others use to test BLE authentication and/or authorization?

Best Mathias

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