1. Rating Technical quality 4-5: Contents are completely correct. There are no errors. As far as I could tell, there seem to be no errors. Originality 3: No significantly new ideas, but good analysis of current state Editorial quality 4: Mostly understandable, some improvements identified below Overall grade (overall, how do you rate this paper?) 3-4: Very good Confidence (how confident are you about this review?) 2: I have some general knowledge of this subject 2. Detailed comments 2a. Technical quality The paper presents a review on the ways to achieve confidential communication channel between devices based on pre-shared key. The paper seems like a rather good technical description of the selected methods. Some readability and motivation issues are suggested for improving the paper. The methods selected for the paper to go through are supposedly covering the most important techonologies, but the motivation for the selection should be more clearly stated. E.g. why only deal with issues with pre-shared key. What about Bluetooth, for example? 2b. Originality The paper does not really provide new information or knowledge, but it seems to be technically correct as far as I know. Again, reference to things left out of the paper would help to enhance the paper. 2c. Editorial quality Pretty well written, ok language, easy to read. Table for abbreviations is a bit exceptional. It would be better to explain the abbreviations in the body text immediately as they are first introduced. The starting sentences of the Introduction would be quite important. In this paper, the Introduction seems to start a bit 'in the middle' - the reader is a bit curious what the work is related to, what is the motivation ,and why the selections for this particular study were made. Also, the conclusion section seems to leave the reader a bit hanging in the air. However, the substance seems, for the most, to be there, just some refinements to how things are presented and providing the motivation and the paper should be a good state-of-the-art review on the chosen technologies. So, just provide better grounding and motivation for the paper, which seems technically ok, and the paper will be ok. Good references: For reference for the IEEE 802.11. standard, please use the actual standard instead of wikipedia. Otherwise references seem ok. -- Kristiina