This post is part of our research archive and is a selected publication. Although Armatyr was founded in 2026, members of our team have been conducting and publishing research in medical device and hospital IT security for over a decade. We maintain this archive to provide context for our experience and contributions to the field.

In this video, the authors evaluate the use of a patient’s own heartbeat (ECG) as a cryptographic key source for securing communication between implantable medical devices. No paper or written abstract was published alongside this talk, so there is no abstract to quote here.

Michael Rushanan, Denis Foo Kune, Daniel E. Holcomb, and Colleen Swanson. “An Evaluation of ECG use in Cryptography for Implantable Medical Devices and Body Area Networks.” USENIX Security Workshop on Health Information Technologies (HealthTech), 2014.