Design of an Extended Architecture for Secure Low-Cost 900MHz UHF Mobile RFID Systems

The mobile RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a technology for developing a RFID reader embedded in a mobile terminal and providing various application services over wireless networks. Various security issues - Inter domain security, Privacy, Authentication, E2E (End-to-End) security, and Untraceability etc. - need to be addressed before the widespread use of mobile RFID. Low cost mobile RFID systems are increasingly being deployed in industry and m-commerce. These contactless devices have raised public concern regarding violation of privacy and information security. There is a growing need in the mobile RFID community to discover and develop techniques and methods to overcome several problems posed by the above-mentioned concerns. This paper presents proposals on feasible security mechanisms for low-cost mobile RFID systems and analyses them from both security and privacy points of view1.