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Still and Silent: Motion Detection for Enhanced RFID Security and Privacy without Changing the Usage Model

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Book cover Radio Frequency Identification: Security and Privacy Issues (RFIDSec 2010)

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Abstract

Personal RFID devices – found, e.g., in access cards and contactless credit cards – are vulnerable to unauthorized reading, owner tracking and different types of relay attacks. We observe that accessing a personal RFID device fundamentally requires moving it in some manner (e.g., swiping an RFID access card in front of a reader). Determining whether or not the device is in motion can therefore provide enhanced security and privacy; the device will respond only when it is in motion, instead of doing so promiscuously. We investigate extending the concept of min-entropy from the realm of random number generation to achieve motion detection on an RFID device equipped with an accelerometer. Our approach is quite simple and well-suited for use on low-cost devices because the min-entropy of an accelerometer’s distribution can be efficiently approximated. As opposed to alternative methods, our approach does not require any changes to the usage model expected of personal RFID devices.

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    Nitesh Saxena & Jonathan Voris

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    Siddika Berna Ors Yalcin

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Saxena, N., Voris, J. (2010). Still and Silent: Motion Detection for Enhanced RFID Security and Privacy without Changing the Usage Model. In: Ors Yalcin, S.B. (eds) Radio Frequency Identification: Security and Privacy Issues. RFIDSec 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6370. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16822-2_2

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