Privacy-aware multi-context RFID infrastructure using public key cryptography

  • Authors:
  • Selim Volkan Kaya;Erkay Savas;Albert Levi;Özgür Erçetin

  • Affiliations:
  • Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey;Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey;Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey;Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

  • Venue:
  • NETWORKING'07 Proceedings of the 6th international IFIP-TC6 conference on Ad Hoc and sensor networks, wireless networks, next generation internet
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We propose a novel RFID infrastruture design, which foresees the usage of a single RFID tag within different contexts and for multiple purposes. We show that an infrastruture for multi-purpose RFID tags to be used in different contexts can be implemented in a privacy-preserving manner. We address security attacks such an impersonation, tracking, and replay. We also introduce spatio-temperal attacks as an important threat against privacy. We propose a methodology to thwart or alleviate these kinds of attacks. We develop our multi-context RFID infrastruture relying on usage of public key crytogra-phy (PKC), which presents more scalable solutions in the sense that the backend servers can identify the tags 75 times faster than best symmetric cipher based systems when there are a million tags in the system. We demonstate that the requirements for PKC are comparable to those for other crytographic implementations based on symmetric ciphers proposed for RFID use.