Chapter 18

RFID Security

Chunming Rong,    University of Stavanger, Norway

Gansen Zhao,    Sun Yat-sen University, China

Liang Yan,    University of Stavanger, Norway

Erdal Cayirci,    University of Stavanger, Norway

Hongbing Cheng,    University of Stavanger, Norway

1 RFID Introduction

Generally, an RFID system consists of three basic components: RFID tags, RFID readers, and a back-end database:

• RFID tags or RFID transponders. These are the data carriers attached to objects. A typical RFID tag contains information about the attached object, such as an identifier (ID) of the object and other related properties of the object that may help to identify and describe it.

• The RFID reader or the RFID transceiver. These devices can read information ...

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