Group management of RFID passwords for privacy protection

✍ Scribed by Yuichi Kobayashi; Toshiyuki Kuwana; Yoji Taniguchi; Norihisa Komoda

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 601 KB
• Volume: 92
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1942-9533
• DOI: 10.1002/ecj.10106

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

When an RFID tag is used in the whole item lifecycle including a consumer scene or a recycle scene, we have to protect consumer privacy in the state that the RFID tag is stuck on an item. We use the low‐cost RFID tag that has the access control function using a password, and we propose a method which manages RFID tags by passwords identical to each group of RFID tags. This proposal improves the safety of the RFID system because the proposed method is able to reduce the traceability for an RFID tag, and hold down the influence for disclosure of RFID passwords in both scenes. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electron Comm Jpn, 92(10): 24–31, 2009; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/ecj.10106