RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is recently becoming popular due to its convenience and economical efficiency. Furthermore, RFID nowadays comes into the spotlight as a technology to substitute the barcode. On the other hand, RFID is jeopardized from various attacks and problems as an obstacle of widespread RFID deployment: replay, spoofing, traceability, de-synchronization, un-scalability...

Recently, Radio frequency identification (RFID) has been an important and ubiquitous infrastructure technology for smart work system. As RFID tags are affixed to all items, they may be used to support various useful services. Security mechanisms for RFID systems, such as authentication and encryption, are therefore of utmost importance. However, there are many risks involved, for example user p...

In the past researches, most of the authentication protocols were designed in an effort to solve the RFID security and privacy problem regarding the encrypted communication between the database and readers, and readers and tags. Based on the proposal of mobile agent device for RFID privacy protection (MARP), some security problems have been exposed. Later on, protecting the privacy with a mobil...

RFID technology arouses great interests from both its advocates and opponents because of the promising but privacy-threatening nature of low-cost RFID tags. A main privacy concern in RFID systems results from clandestine scanning through which an adversary could conduct silent tracking and inventorying of persons carrying tagged objects. Thus, the most important security requirement in designin...

This report deals with the time and energy analysis for RFID arbitration protocols. The goal is to analyse and compare various RFID arbitration algorithms. Two protocols are detailed in here – The tree search algorithm of Capetanakis and a non-monotonic windowing protocol. A new simpler proof is given for the expected time complexity of the tree splitting protocol and the worst case energy cons...

RFID security is a relatively new research area. Within less than a decade, a large number of research papers dealing with security issues of RFID technology have appeared. In the first part of this paper, we attempt to summarise current research in the field of RFID security and discuss some of their open issues. In the second part of this paper, we address some of the open problems we suggest...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has received recently a great attention from large organizations and researchers due to the dropping tag costs and vigorous RFID standardization. They are becoming more common in daily use to identify, locate and track people, assets, and animals. Number of protocols has been proposed in the literature for the security of RFID against passive attacks. One o...

This paper investigates authentication and secure data retrieval issues in Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID)-aware wireless sensor networks. We propose a network architecture (ARIES) consisting of RFIDs and wireless sensor nodes, a mutual authentication protocol (AMULET), and a Secret Search Protocol (SSP). ARIES utilises RFID-aware sensor nodes to alleviate distance limitation problem in R...

RFID technology has become popular in many applications; however, most of the RFID products lack security related functionality due to the hardware limitation of the low-cost RFID tags. In 2009, Chien and Laih proposed an RFID authentication protocol based on error correction codes (ECC) to secure RFID systems with untraceability, which is one of the most critical privacy issues on RFID. In thi...

One of the key problems in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is security and privacy. Many RFID authentication protocols have been proposed to preserve security and privacy of the system. Nevertheless, most of these protocols are analyzed and it is shown that they can not provide security against some RFID attacks. In WISTP 2013, a new lightweight authentication protocol using AES S-box and...