ICEBE 2008 Keynote III

Pervasive computing has rapidly evolved due to the advances in computing devices and communication technologies. Pervasive computing plays an important role in today's E-business. One of the essential objectives of pervasive computing is to enable universal deployment of smart devices, seamless services, and uninterruptible access to the information and resources. The privacy issue, however, erects security barriers to the prevalence of pervasive applications. The capacity-limited pervasive devices are difficult to adopt complicated cryptography to protect users' private information. The open and non-persistent feature of pervasive communications also facilitates adversaries to compromise the user privacy. In this discussion, we will focus on pervasive privacy issue in the context of (a) radio frequency identification (RFID) systems, (b) mutual anonymous Peer-to-Peer, and (c) wireless sensor network wormholes.