Thread Protocol: Enabling Secure Mesh Networks For Smart Home Devices

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About a year ago (July last year), Nest, along with several other companies, joined together to form the Thread Group consortium, in an effort to bring a more secure low-power networking protocol for IoT devices.

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[Kewlx25]

I hope someone who is designing they encryption knows what they're doing. We've had some serious issues with standard protocols in the past few years and many security bugs in the software libraries. I hope they're going to use something like boringSSL or libreSSL, and disable all features that are not needed.

On top of that, well vetted public key and cypher block modes.