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Contactless Smartcards are typically used in fields of electronic ticketing, transport and access control. More recently, they have been for electronic payment transactions. This apparent reluctance to the use of contactless smartcards in fields that involve money transactions as well as many other fields and applications is because contactless technology is erroneously believed to be less secure than contact technology. Research has shown that contactless smartcards are not fundamentally less secure than contact cards. However certain security threats are inherently facilitated by contactless smart cards and contactless technology. The various security issues in contactless technology are Eavesdropping, Denial of Service, Covert Transactions, and Man-in-the-Middle.
In this paper, we explore the possibility of using cryptography as a solution to the security issues in contactless technology. We provide the effectiveness of cryptography on these issues, the limitations we have to impose on our applications in order to use cryptography, and further enhancements that are possible to reduce, if not eliminate, the severity of security threats in contactless technology which will further enable use of contactless smart cards in more fields hitherto unexplored.
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Kundarap, A., Chhajlani, A., Singla, R., Sawant, M., Dere, M., Mahalle, P. (2010). Security for Contactless Smart Cards Using Cryptography. In: Meghanathan, N., Boumerdassi, S., Chaki, N., Nagamalai, D. (eds) Recent Trends in Network Security and Applications. CNSA 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 89. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14478-3_56
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