Rfid Technology, Privacy and Security Udc 65.011.56

This paper provides a survey on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Initially RFID tags were developed to eventually replace barcodes in supply chains. Their advantages are that they can be read wirelessly and without line of sight, contain more information than barcodes, and are more robust. The paper describes the current technology, including the frequency ranges used and standards. With the increasing ubiquity of RFID tags, however, privacy became a concern. The paper outlines possible attacks that can violate one's privacy and it also describes counter measures. The RFID technology did not stop at item-level tagging. The paper also presents current research that focuses on locating and tracking labeled object that move. Since the uses for RFID tags are so widespread, there is a large interest in lowering the costs for producing them. It turns out that printing tags might become a viable alternative to traditional production. The paper reviews the current progress.

Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal, 2017

Radio frequency Identification (RFID) is currently considered as one of the most used technologies for an automatic identification of objects or people. Based on a combination of tags and readers, RFID technology has widely been applied in various areas including supply chain, production and traffic control systems. However, despite of its numerous advantages, the technology brings out many challenges and concerns still not being attracting more and more researchers especially the security and privacy issues. In this paper, we review some of the recent research works using RFID solutions and dealing with security and privacy issues, we define our specific parameters and requirements allowing us to classify for each work which part of the RFID system is being secured, the solutions and the techniques used besides the conformity to RFID standards. Finally, we present briefly a solution that consists of combining RFID with smartcard based biometric to enhance security especially in access control scenarios. Hence the result of our study aims to give a clear vision of available solutions and techniques used to prevent and secure the RFID system from specific threats and attacks.

Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2002, 2003

The Auto-ID Center is developing low-cost radio frequency identification (RFID) based systems with the initial application as next generation bar-codes. We describe RFID technology, summarize our approach and our research, and most importantly, describe the research opportunities in RFID for experts in cryptography and information security. The common theme in low-cost RFID systems is that computation resources are very limited, and all aspects of the RFID system are connected to each other. Understanding these connections and the resulting design trade-offs is an important prerequisite to effectively answering the challenges of security and privacy in low-cost RFID systems.

… HIIT, Helsinki University of Technology and …, 2007

Tags implement low to moderate security features like memory write protection and basic encryption schemes. As for the price, it depends on their functionality and sophistication. While tags with advanced security measures, as those used in bank applications have an approximate value of ten euros, most typical tags with basic features used in supply chain and logistics cost a few cents of an Euro.

IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2000

This paper surveys recent technical research on the problems of privacy and security for radio frequency identification (RFID). RFID tags are small, wireless devices that help identify objects and people.Thanks to dropping cost, they are likely to proliferate into the billions in the next several years—and eventually into the trillions. RFID tags track objects in supply chains, and are working their way into the pockets, belongings, and even the bodies of consumers. This survey examines approaches proposed by scientists for privacy protection and integrity assurance in RFID systems, and treats the social and technical context of their work. While geared toward the non specialist, the survey may also serve as a reference for specialist readers. Keywords-RFID,Tag,Transponder,Reader,Security ,Privacy.

ISSE 2009 Securing Electronic Business Processes, 2010

Wireless RFID networks are getting deployed at a rapid pace and have already entered the public space on a massive scale: public transport cards, the biometric passport, office ID tokens, customer loyalty cards, etc. Although RFID technology offers interesting services to customers and retailers, it could also endanger the privacy of the end-users. The lack of protection mechanisms being deployed could potentially result in a privacy leakage of personal data. Furthermore, there is the emerging threat of location privacy. In this paper, we will show some practical attack scenarios and illustrates some of them with cases that have received press coverage. We will present the main challenges of enhancing privacy in RFID networks and evaluate some solutions proposed in literature. The main advantages and shortcomings will be briefly discussed. Finally, we will give an overview of some academic and industrial research initiatives on RFID privacy.

IGI Global eBooks, 2013

Remote technologies are changing our way of life. The radio frequency identification (RFID) system is a new technology which uses the open air to transmit information. This information transmission needs to be protected to provide user safety and privacy. Business will look for a system that has fraud resilience to prevent the misuse of information to take dishonest advantage. The business and the user need to be assured that the transmitted information has no content which is capable of undertaking malicious activities. Public awareness of RFID security will help users and organizations to understand the need for security protection. Publishing a security guideline from the regulating body and monitoring implementation of that guideline in RFID systems will ensure that businesses and users are protected. This chapter explains the importance of security in a RFID system and will outline the protective measures. It also points out the research direction of RFID systems.

the 7th International Conference on Engineering and Emerging Technologies, 2021

Nowadays, technology is used in different aspects of life that helps to make life easy and convenient. One of the widespread technologies that been used is Radio-Frequency Identifications. RFIDs are used to give more specific data about each object that is accessible from portable devices with specific privileges to access that data. This paper aims to show how the RFID tracking system works and shed light upon the advantages of using RFID tagging in real-time monitoring. Also, the paper presents some implementation of RFIDs, and it discusses the security issues and privacy for RFID. The result is creating harmless and secure working surroundings for interested people for related business. Therefore, this research suggests three solutions to avoid such attacks. It is, firstly, deactivating the RFID tag to connect to a reader by unauthorized tag with a wrong world that will deactivate the tag forever. Secondly, using a cryptographic method to help RFID to work in a secured environment. The third solution is using the solid cage to cut any magnetic waves.

RFID Eurasia, 2007 1st Annual, 2007

There is no doubt that managing the flow of goods depends on monitoring the real flow in the physical world meanwhile in the digital world. Today automatic identification (auto-ID) technologies are used to close the gap between these two different environments by online updating of ...

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2006

This article surveys recent technical research on the problems of privacy and security for RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification).

2009

Current research in RFID security focuses on basic authentication protocols between a tag and a reader. In this paper, we claim that, in future, different new RFID-based scenarios will play an increasing role. In particular, we propose two new research directions: 1. Multi-Tag Security, and 2. RFID-based Payment. In multi-tag security, multiple tags try to jointly compute an information while using the reader either as the focal point of all communication or as a relay for tag-to-tag communication. In this scenario, the security of the computation has to be guaranteed while also privacy of individual tags must be protected. In a payment scenario, tags are used as electronic wallets similar to the notions of traditional electronic cash. Payment must be secured against malicious spending, and the privacy of tags and their payments must be protected.