Scalable and flexible privacy protection scheme for RFID systems

Abstract

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system has been studied so much and it may be applicable to various fields. RFID system, however, still has consumer privacy problems under the limitation of low-cost tag implementation. We propose an efficient privacy protection scheme using two hash functions in the tag. We show that our scheme satisfies not only privacy and location history protection of consumers, but also scalability and flexibility of back-end servers. Additionally, we present a practical example to compare performance of several schemes.