Projects
Anti-Counterfeiting RFID Tags
RFID tags embedded in objects will become the standard way to identify objects to provide the link between the physical and cyber worlds. However, it is easy to clone RFID tags by copying the contents of the memory to a new tag to create a counterfeit tag that can be attached to a counterfeit product. In addition, RFID tags are vulnerable to side-channel attacks in which external parameters such as power consumption and timing delays are measured to calculate the desired information. The objective of the anti-counterfeiting RFID tag research is to prevent counterfeiting of RFID tags by offering mitigating techniques that provide different levels of protection and have different requirements in cost and implementation complexity in order to provide appropriately secure and flexible solutions for different applications. The anticipated results of this high-risk and high-payoff area of research are cost-effective and reliable anti-counterfeiting techniques to prevent cloning of RFID tags. The principal investigators are Drs. Dale R. Thompson (d.r.thompson@ieee.org) and Jia Di (jdi@uark.edu). This work is supported by the National Science Foundation CISE/CNS and the Cyber Trust area support under contract CNS-0716578. First project website. New Project Wiki.
RFID INFOSEC for Nation-wide Engineering Education
Radio frequency identification (RFID) information systems provide information to users about objects with RFID tags. RFID systems require the application of information systems security (INFOSEC) to protect the information from tampering, unauthorized information disclosure, and denial of service to authorized users. Typically, students experience only narrowly focused layers of a RFID system such as the tag, air interface, reader, network, middleware, or applications in separate courses instead of a system-wide approach. The goal of this project is to improve the quality of education nation-wide in RFID INFOSEC by creating new learning materials and teaching strategies that address security at the tag, air interface, reader, network, middleware, and application layers. The principal investigators are Drs. Dale R. Thompson (d.r.thompson@ieee.org) and Jia Di (jdi@uark.edu). Senior investigators are Drs. Michael K. Daugherty and Craig W. Thompson. This work is supported by the National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education under the Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program, contract DUE-0736741. Project website: http://rfidsecurity.uark.edu .