A Study of RFID Security and Privacy Issues

• Main Authors: Chin-Yi Lin, 林智溢
• Other Authors: Dong-Her Shih
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09970866535924809068

碩士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 資訊管理系碩士班 === 93 === This research presents a formal mechanism called Lightweight-ECC of a cryptographic authentication protocol for RFID - Radio Frequency Identification smart tags. These smart tags are nowadays embedded in the many items and may come soon into our daily life. The main goal of RFID systems is to identify objects remotely by embedding smart tags, tiny devices capable of transmitting data, into these objects. Goods in stores can be tagged in order to prevent shoplifting, or to speed up the goods registration process by using wireless scanning instead of human or optical scanning. However, these wireless devices have raised public concern regarding violation of privacy and information security like individual information leakage, behavioral traceability, spoofing and industrial sabotage. It is necessary to provide security for those objects. Many solutions have been proposed but almost as many ways have been found to break them. And existing protocols almost don’t include symmetric or asymmetric cryptosystem authentication mechanisms. They couldn’t solve RFID security problems efficiently. Therefore, a new mechanism for authentication is proposed in this research. We present the concept of lightweight-ECC model that provides a high degree of security assurance. This research also analyzes my protocol from both security and privacy points of view and explains how to overcome above-mentioned security problems.