A New Attack Method Against ECG-Based Key Generation and Agreement Schemes in Body Area Networks

Synthetic Electrocardiogram Attack Method (SEAM) is an attack designed to compromise electrocardiogram based key agreement schemes for Body Area Networks (BAN) such as ELPA, PSKA or OPFKA. This attack will focus on the property known as temporal variance which prevents the use of past signal recordings to be used against present or future agreements. The attack will attempt to reconstitute the QRS complexes that originate from past recordings in possession of the adversary in order to achieve this aim.