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1.1 Introduction<br />

CHAPTER 1<br />

INTRODUCTION<br />

An RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) Reader is a device whose primary<br />

purpose is to read the identifier stored on all RFID tags located near it. Reader<br />

communicates this Tag identifier to the backend information system. RFID is widely<br />

deployed in the supply chain industry. It is becoming more ubiquitous by the day.<br />

This is good for achieving the applications and such from the Internet of Things<br />

but it poses significant security and privacy concerns for individuals since the most<br />

widely deployed tags are promiscuous. This means that a person may be easily<br />

tracked without their knowledge or their consent. So how secure is the RFID wireless<br />

communication? Will the Tags communicate only to authorized Readers. Security<br />

and Privacy is an important issue in RFID systems. Low cost RFID readers will enable<br />

widely anticipated benefits, and they will also be the source of security protecting<br />

our privacy as we wonder through this ubiquitously connected world of our future.<br />

Different companies have come up with there own methods of providing security and<br />

privacy. It is astonishing how a modest device like an RFID tag essentially just a<br />

wireless license plate, can give rise to the complex melange of security and privacy<br />

problems [24]. There are some research done in providing privacy. Juels offers a survey<br />

of these problems in his paper[24]. Blocker Tag is one possible solution mentioned in<br />

his paper [6]. Also S.A. Weis proposes several security mechanisms to make the Tags<br />

smarter [44].<br />

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