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Secure Wi-Fi Ranging Today: Security and Adoption of IEEE 802.11az/bk

Bart Preneel, Bernhard Etzlinger, Dave Singel\'ee, Nikola Antonijevi\'c

Secure Wi-Fi ranging under IEEE 802.11az and 802.11bk remains vulnerable to unauthenticated sessions and attacks when common configurations are used.

arxiv:2603.18687 v1 · 2026-03-19 · cs.CR

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C1strongest claim

Our results show that secure Wi-Fi ranging is highly sensitive to configuration choices and is non-trivial to implement on existing hardware. This is also evidenced by the currently limited support for secure Wi-Fi ranging in commodity devices.

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That the core logical and physical mechanisms examined, along with the chosen simulation and measurement setups, comprehensively capture the primary security and deployability challenges in real deployments.

C3one line summary

Secure Wi-Fi ranging in 802.11az/bk remains vulnerable to unauthenticated ranging, downgrade, and DoS attacks under common configurations and is non-trivial to implement securely on existing hardware.

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[1] https://developer.android.com/de velop/connectivity/wifi/wiﬁ-rtt#supported-devices , accessed 7 January 2026 2026

[2] https://source.android.com/docs/co re/connect/wifi-rtt (2026), accessed 7 January 2026 2026

[3] In: 10th USENIX Workshop on Oﬀensive Technologies (WOOT 16) (2016) 2016

[4] In: 2007 IEEE in- ternational symposium on information theory 2007

[5] In: 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2006

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arxiv: 2603.18687 · arxiv_version: 2603.18687v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.18687 · pith_short_12: TJFWCYDKRURQ · pith_short_16: TJFWCYDKRURQHXEF · pith_short_8: TJFWCYDK

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