Bluetooth® Secure Simple Pairing

This Application Document describes the interaction of Bluetooth® technology and NFC during SSP in detail. It provides examples of both negotiated and static handover in the most feasible use cases involving the presence of both technologies. Developers will find the examples useful guides for their own work. The document has now been expanded (in June 2014) to include descriptions of how to use NFC for fast and easy Bluetooth Low Energy out-of-band (OOB) pairing, a key capability of Bluetooth.

Version 1.2 of the Application Document published in June 2019 supports also Bluetooth devices implemented according the Bluetooth Core Specification 5.1 and is extended for Bluetooth Low Energy.

Version 1.3 of the Application Document was published in December 2020. This new version which describes the Out Of Band Pairing process for Bluetooth devices by using NFC technology is now extended to offer solutions based on the new TNEP protocol. In the future, this extension will offer full functionality for pairing solutions even if the device is not offering the LLCP protocol.