BTfind Sneak Peek - Bluetooth Device Locating
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Mike Kershaw and I have been working on a tool for the discovery and analysis of Bluetooth devices. Spawned by an assessment of the current tools available for Bluetooth analysis, we were disappointed to learn that there were no tools available to help an administrator both enumerate Bluetooth devices and locate them using RSSI analysis. Initially we looked at adding this functionality to the BlueScanner tool that I maintain for Windows XP systems. Unfortunately, none of the Bluetooth stacks from Microsoft, Widcomm/Broadcom, BlueSoleil or Toshiba support RSSI reporting of discovered devices (Widcomm does partially, but not in a way that is particularly useful for device locating analysis). So we started over again from scratch, developing a tool using the Linux BlueZ stack.
BTfind is written for Linux systems, giving the administrator a tool to identify, enumerate and locate discoverable Bluetooth devices.
We've gotten pretty far in a short time, and we're working on fixing some bugs while adding HTML reporting and additional device enumerating characteristics. Most of my testing is done using the EEE PC, so this will be a great extension for that platform when we release the tool in another few weeks.
Drop me a note with any questions. Thanks!
-Josh
