Security In the Internet of Things Based on RFID: Issues and Current Countermeasures

Abstract

In recent years, the internet of things (IOT) has been a focus of research. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) as a core technology of the IOT also attracted the attention of industry and academia. Security is the key issues for emerging applications of the IOT based on RFID. In order to promote the development of this emerging domain, we firstly in brief introduce the IOT system based on RFID including the components and the work process, and then by means of deeply analyzing the security issues in the IOT based on RFID from two aspects: security features and security threats, we summarize the security issues of RFID into the RFID system security and the communication security. On the basis of these, we discuss the current countermeasures for the security of RFID. In the RFID system, for privacy protection and antiinterference, the corresponding technologies are praised such as Tag killing, Tag sleeping and Tag blocking; in the communication process, the authentication based on HASH is the main method. Keywords-the internet of things; RFID; security; untraceability; attacks