RFID Security Issues, Defenses, and Security Schemes

2021 ◽  
pp. 293-310
Author(s):  
Atul Kumar ◽  
Ankit Kumar Jain
Keyword(s):  
Computer Security ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Rfid Security ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Rfid Systems ◽  
Rfid System ◽  
Power Battery ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Authentication Schemes

Radio frequency identification (RFID) consists of a tag and reader. The RFID system is used in various places, such as finding the location of devices and toll payment. In computer security, CIA (confidentiality, integrity, authentication) is the primary concern for RFID security. In existing scenario, there are various threats present in the RFID system such as de-synchronization attack, disclosure attack, tracking attack and so on. There are various threats that RFID systems are vulnerable to such as a de-synchronization attack, disclosure attack, dos attack, and tracking attack. This chapter discusses various attacks on the RFID system in terms of confidentiality, integrity, and availability as these devices contain a limited amount of memory and low power battery. Therefore, these devices need a lightweight solution for the RFID system. Hence, this chapter additionally discusses various authentication schemes such as lightweight scheme and ultra-lightweight scheme for RFID systems.

Security Risks/Vulnerability in a RFID System and Possible Defenses

2013 ◽  
pp. 1667-1681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morshed U. Chowdhury ◽  
Biplob R. Ray
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Rfid Security ◽  
Rfid Systems ◽  
Rfid System ◽  
Frequency Identification

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.

Security Risks/Vulnerability in a RFID System and Possible Defenses

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Morshed U. Chowdhury ◽  
Biplob R. Ray
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Rfid Security ◽  
Rfid Systems ◽  
Rfid System ◽  
Frequency Identification

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.

Super lightweight mobile RFID authentication protocol for bit replacement operation

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Yubao Hou ◽  
Hua Liang ◽  
Juan liu
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Authentication Protocol ◽  
Wireless Channel ◽  
Identification System ◽  
Rfid Systems ◽  
Rfid System ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Replacement Operation ◽  
Mobile Rfid

In the traditional RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) system, a secure wired channel communication is used between the reader and the server. The newly produced mobile RFID system is different from the traditional RFID system, the communication between the reader and the server is based on a wireless channel, and the authentication protocol is suitable for traditional RFID systems, but it cannot be used in mobile RFID systems. To solve this problem, a mutual authentication protocol MSB (Most Significant Bit) for super lightweight mobile radio frequency identification system is proposed based on bit replacement operation. MSB is a bitwise operation to encrypt information and reduce the computational load of communication entities. Label, readers, and servers authenticate first and then communicate, MSB may be used to resistant to common attacks. The security analysis of the protocol shows that the protocol has high security properties, the performance analysis of the protocol shows that the protocol has the characteristics of low computational complexity, the formal analysis of the protocol based on GNY logic Gong et al. (1990) provides a rigorous reasoning proof process for the protocol.

RFID Systems

2007 ◽  
pp. 57-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis M.L. Wong ◽  
Raphael C.W. Phan
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Malicious Attacks ◽  
Rfid Systems ◽  
Rfid System ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Business Establishment ◽  
Commercial Applications ◽  
Privacy Issues

In this chapter, we discuss the business implications, as well as security and privacy issues, of the widespread deployment of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. We first describe, in more detail, the components that make up an RFID system to facilitate better understanding of the implications of each, and then review the commercial applications of the RFID. We then discuss the security and privacy issues for RFID systems and what mechanisms have been proposed to safeguard these. The topics discussed in this chapter highlight the benefits of using RFIDs for user convenience in ubiquitous and pervasive commercial services and e-businesses, while maintaining the integrity of such systems against malicious attacks on the users’ security and privacy. This is vital for a business establishment to coexist with peers and remain competitively attractive to customers.

scholarly journals Design and implementation of a security layer for RFID systems

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Alarcon-Aquino ◽  
M. Dominguez-Jimenez ◽  
C. Ohms
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Mutual Authentication ◽  
Rfid Tag ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Rfid Systems ◽  
Rf Transceivers ◽  
Authentication Mechanism ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Symmetric Key ◽  
Proposed Modification

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a technology whose employment will certainly grow in the following years. It is therefore necessary to consider the security issues that come out from the implementation of that type of systems. In this paper we present an approach to solve the security problems in RFID systems by designing a naive security layer based on authentication and encryption algorithms. The authentication mechanism is the mutual authentication based on a three-way handshaking model, which authenticates both the reader and the tag in the communication protocol. The cipher algorithm based on a symmetric-key cryptosystem is RC4 implemented in a proposed modification to the existing WEP protocol to make it more secure in terms of message privacy. The proposed approach is implemented using VHDL in FPGAs communicated through RF transceivers. The results show that the security layer is simple enough to be implemented in a low-price RFID tag.

scholarly journals Comparison and Feasibility of Various RFID Authentication Methods Using ECC

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 2902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pagán Alexander ◽  
Rania Baashirah ◽  
Abdelshakour Abuzneid
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Rfid Tags ◽  
Rfid Technology ◽  
Rfid Security ◽  
Rfid Systems ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Privacy Issues

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a technology that has grown in popularity and in the applications of use. However, there are major issues regarding security and privacy with respect to RFID technology which have caught the interest of many researchers. There are significant challenges which must be overcome to resolve RFID security and privacy issues. One reason is the constraints attached to the provision of security and privacy in RFID systems. Along with meeting the security and privacy needs of RFID technology, solutions must be inexpensive, practical, reliable, scalable, flexible, inter-organizational, and long-lasting. To make RFID identifiers effective and efficient they must identify the item(s) while resisting attacks aimed at obtaining the tag’s information and compromising the system or making it possible to bypass the protection RFID tags are supposed to provide. Different authentication methods have been proposed, researched, and evaluated in the literature. In this work, we proposed our methodology in evaluating RFID authentication, and a few of the most promising authentication methods are reviewed, compared, and ranked in order to arrive at a possible best choice of protocol to use.

scholarly journals RFID security protocols simulation and prototyping

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohui Yu
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Security Protocol ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Rfid Security ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Symmetric Key ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Attack Models

As Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology achieves commercial success, its privacy and security issues are becoming a barrier to limit its potential for future start of the art applications. In this report, we present an investigation of the past and current research related to RFID security algorithms and protocols for product authentication. We also present a novel RFID security protocol based on eXtended Tiny Encryption Algorithm (XTEA). Analysis of the security and privacy level of our proposed protocol is performed using SystemC based modeling and different attack models are simulated to show that the protocol is robust and safe against application, protoypes of these attack models are implemented on FPGA platform. We also compare our proposed protocol technique with similar protocols presented in the near past that also use symmetric key algorithms to verify and demostrate main advantages of our protocol in terms of security and performance.

Data Desynchronization Attacks on Two Lightweight Security Protocols for the RFID System

2012 ◽  
Vol 241-244 ◽  
pp. 2331-2334
Author(s):  
Miao Lei Deng ◽  
Hao Jun Zhang ◽  
Wei Jun Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Mutual Authentication ◽  
Security Protocols ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
Security Vulnerabilities ◽  
Rfid Security ◽  
Rfid System ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Desynchronization Attacks

Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems need security protocols to provide confidentiality, user privacy, mutual authentication and etc. This paper analyze two of the newest RFID security protocols which proposed by Niu et al. and Fu et al. form the security viewpoint of data desynchronization attack. These two lightweight protocols were expected to proposed security protections for the RFID system and safeguard against almost all major attacks. However, we found that these two RFID security protocols were vulnerable to the attack of data desynchronization. Based on strand space model, data desynchronization attacks on these two protocols were analyzed. Furthermore, improvements to overcome the security vulnerabilities of these two protocols were given.

RFID Systems

2009 ◽  
pp. 879-894
Author(s):  
Dennis M.L. Wong ◽  
Raphael C.W. Phan
Keyword(s):  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Malicious Attacks ◽  
Rfid Systems ◽  
Rfid System ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Business Establishment ◽  
Commercial Applications ◽  
Privacy Issues

In this chapter, we discuss the business implications, as well as security and privacy issues, of the widespread deployment of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems. We first describe, in more detail, the components that make up an RFID system to facilitate better understanding of the implications of each, and then review the commercial applications of the RFID. We then discuss the security and privacy issues for RFID systems and what mechanisms have been proposed to safeguard these. The topics discussed in this chapter highlight the benefits of using RFIDs for user convenience in ubiquitous and pervasive commercial services and e-businesses, while maintaining the integrity of such systems against malicious attacks on the users’ security and privacy. This is vital for a business establishment to coexist with peers and remain competitively attractive to customers.

Data Analysis of an RFID System for Its Dependability

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imad Belkacem ◽  
Safia Nait Bahloul ◽  
Oum-El-Kheir Aktouf
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Fault Tolerance ◽  
Confidence Interval ◽  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Rfid Tags ◽  
Rfid Systems ◽  
Rfid System ◽  
Frequency Identification

Dependability issues become more and more significant in RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) development and especially in critical domains. However, Operations of reading, detection of readers, and measurements of sensors in a RFID system are inevitably subjected to errors. These factors degrade the overall dependability of RFID systems. The authors study the Fault Tolerance in RFID systems as a means to ensure the dependability. The authors propose to perform a statistical analysis on the RFID tags data, using a confidence interval, at the level of the middleware enabling the detection of erroneous readers and sensors.

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