Securing a Low Level Reader Protocol Connection and a Study of its Performance

Author

Qadir, Sana ; Siddiqi, Mohammad Umar

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Int. Islamic Univ. Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

fYear

2009

fDate

3-5 April 2009

Firstpage

513

Lastpage

517

Abstract

The latest EPCglobal standard to become popular is the low level reader protocol (LLRP). Because of its recent ratification, little work has been done on this protocol. This paper examines LLRP from an information security perspective. This study is the first to set up a secure LLRP connection. To investigate the cost of securing the LLRP connection, we determine the resource requirements of the secure LLRP endpoints as well as the performance of the secure LLRP connection. The resource requirement was found to be beyond that of current readers but not of the Java-based readers expected in the near future. The measures that indicate performance quantified the overhead of securing the channel and helped us to recommend a cipher suite for securing the channel in the near future.

Keywords

cryptographic protocols; radiofrequency identification; EPCglobal standard; Java-based reader; RFID reader; cipher; information security; low level reader protocol; resource requirement; secure LLRP connection; Communication standards; Communication system security; Costs; Data security; Electronic mail; Elliptic curve cryptography; Information security; Protocols; Radiofrequency identification; Standards development; LLRP; RFID; TLS; cipher suites; overhead; performance; resources;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Future Computer and Communication, 2009. ICFCC 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpar

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3591-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICFCC.2009.111

Filename

5189836