Title :
MIXNET for Radio Frequency Identification
Author :
Uudmae, Jaanus ; Sunkara, Harshitha ; Thompson, Dale R. ; Bruce, Sean ; Penumarthi, Jayamadhuri
Author_Institution :
Arkansas Univ., Fayetteville
Abstract :
Privacy concerns have been raised with current and forthcoming implementations of RFID tags. The two main concerns are tracking and inventorying. Cryptosystems are being developed in order to curtail these potential abuses. Conventional cryptosystems that permit re-encryption do so only for a player with the knowledge of the public key corresponding to a given ciphertext. This kind of approach does not scale and is not practical. However, universal re-encryption in a MIXNET can be implemented without the servers holding any knowledge of public keys. Using existing techniques to implement an asymmetric cryptosystem with universal re-encryption in a MIXNET, we examine the ramifications of building such a system and also simulate its behavior with a Java implementation.
Keywords :
public key cryptography; radiofrequency identification; Java implementation; MIXNET; RFID tags; asymmetric cryptosystem; radio frequency identification; universal reencryption; Computer science; Privacy; Product codes; Protection; Public key; Public key cryptography; RFID tags; Radiofrequency identification; Routing; Supply chain management;
Conference_Titel :
Region 5 Technical Conference, 2007 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Fayetteville, AR
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1280-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1280-8
DOI :
10.1109/TPSD.2007.4380339