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Bluetooth: Inform privacy risk of using signed writes. 

The Cordio stack uses a single CSRK. It can be used by a
malicious device to track the Mbed OS application if signed
writes are used.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Coubard <vincent.coubard@arm.com>
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@ -8,3 +8,19 @@ This is the Github repository for the `BLE_API`. Please see the [Mbed OS Example
* [Mbed OS example BLE GitHub repo](https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbed-os-example-ble) for all Mbed OS BLE examples.
* [Mbed OS BLE introduction](https://os.mbed.com/docs/latest/apis/ble.html) for an introduction to Mbed BLE.
* [Mbed OS BLE API page](https://os.mbed.com/docs/latest/apis/bluetooth.html) for the Mbed BLE API documentation.
## Privacy notice
The Cordio Bluetooth stack only stores one single signing key. This key is then
shared across all bonded devices. If a malicious device bonds with the Mbed OS
application it then gains knowledge of the shared signing key of the Mbed OS device.
The malicious device can then track the Mbed OS device whenever a signing write
is issued from it.
To overcome this privacy issue do not issue signed writes from the Mbed OS device.
A signed write occurs when the member function `write` of `GattClient` is called
with its `cmd` argument set to `GATT_OP_SIGNED_WRITE_CMD`.
Instead of using signed writes, enable encryption on the connection. This is achieved
by calling the function `setLinkEncryption` of the `SecurityManager`. Set the encryption
to at least `ENCRYPTED`.