RFID Security Lab

The RFID Security Lab was created on August 1, 2008 for facilitating comprehensive research on RFID security, ranging from experimental study of RFID systems, design/attack/analysis of RFID security protocols, theoretical research on RFID security and privacy notions, to protection of EPCglobal network services.

Team members:

• Supervisors: Yingjiu Li (SMU), Robert Deng (SMU), Tieyan Li (I2R)

• Collaborators: Eng Wah Lee (SIMTech/NRC), Wei He (SIMTech)

• Research fellows/assistants: Changshe Ma, Kevin Chiew, Chunhua Su, Ge Fu

• PhD students: Qiang Yan,  Shaoying Cai

• Master students: Bing Liang

Invited talks/demos: The team members of this project were invited to give talks or show demos at the following events in the reporting period:

• Yingjiu Li: EPCglobal network security: research challenges and solutions. RFID Security Seminar, National RFID Center, SIMTech, and I2R, Singapore, August 1, 2008.
• Kevin Chiew, Wei He, Tieyan Li: RFID security. Exhibition at RFID World Asia and EPCglobal RFID Singapore Summit 2009, Suntec City, Singapore, April 22–24, 2009.
• Tieyan Li: Interaction models in EPCDS and the security implications. The First Singapore-Taiwan Joint RFID Seminar, National RFID Centre, Singapore, June 19, 2009.

Visitors: The team members of this project have received the following visitors in our RFID security lab at SMU and introduced this project to them in the reporting period:

• Prof. Kouichi Sakurai (Research director, Institute of System and Information Technologies, Kyushu University, Japan),
  July 28, 2009.
• Prof. Nai-Wei Lo (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, ROC), July 24, 2009.
• Mr. Lim Chuan Poh (A*STAR chairman, Singapore), July 14, 2009.
• Prof. Melanie Rieback (author of first paper on RFID malware, Vrije University in Amsterdam, Netherlands), May 15, 2009.
• Dr Manfred Aigner (senior RFID researcher, TU Graz, Austria), January 15, 2009.
• Dr Ari Juels (chief scientist and director of RSA Laboratories, RSA/EMC, USA), December 5, 2008.

Conference organizations:

• 2010 workshop on RFID security (RFIDsec’10 Asia), Robert Deng and Lee Eng Wah serve as general co-chairs, Yingjiu Li serves as the program committee co-chair, and Tieyan Li is on the program committee.

Publications:

• Shaoying Cai, Yingjiu Li, Tieyan Li, Robert Deng, Haixia Yao: Achieving High Security and Efficiency in RFID-Tagged Supply Chains. Accepted by International Journal of Applied Cryptography (IJACT), 2010.

• Kuo-Hui Yeh, N.W. Lo, Yingjiu Li, Enrico Winata: An Adaptive n-Resolution Anti-Collision Algorithm for RFID Tag Identification. Accepted by the Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (HWISE), 2010.

• Changshe Ma, Yingjiu Li, Robert Deng, Tieyan Li: RFID Privacy: Relation Between Two Notions, Minimal Condition, and Efficient Construction. 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2009), pages 54-65, Chicago, US, November 9-13, 2009 (acceptance ratio 58/315 = 18.4%).

• Bing Liang, Yingjiu Li, Changshe Ma, Tieyan Li, Robert Deng: On Untraceability of Anonymous RFID Authentication Protocol with Constant Key-Lookup. 5th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS), pages 71-85, Kolkata, India, December 14-18, 2009. (acceptance ratio 18/91=19.8%).

• Shaoying Cai, Tieyan Li, Changshe Ma, Yingjiu Li, Robert Deng: Flexible and Secure Secret Updating for Unidirectional Key Distribution in RFID-enabled Supply Chains. 11th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS), pages 150-164, Beijing, China, December 14-17, 2009. (acceptance ratio 31/164 = 18.9%)

• Pedro Peris-Lopez, Julio C. Hernandez-Castro, Juan M. E. Tapiador, Tieyan Li, Yingjiu Li: Vulnerability Analysis of RFID Protocols for Tag Ownership Transfer. Accepted by Computer Networks, Elsevier, 2009.

• Shaoying Cai, Tieyan Li, Yingjiu Li, Robert Deng: Ensuring Dual Security Modes in RFID-Enabled Supply Chain Systems. 5th Information Security Practice and Experience Conference (ISPEC 2009), pages 372-383, LNCS 5451, Xi'an, China, April 13-15, 2009. (acceptance ratio 36/160 = 22.5%)

• Shaoying Cai, Yingjiu Li, Tieyan Li, Robert Deng: Attacks and improvements to an RFID mutual authentication protocol (short paper). 2nd ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec' 09), pages 51-58, Zurich, Switzerland, March 16-18, 2009. (acceptance ratio 28/107 = 26.2%)

• Qiang Yan, Yingjiu Li, Tieyan Li, Robert Deng: A comprehensive study for RFID malwares on mobile devices. 5th Workshop on RFID Security (RFIDsec 2009 Asia), Taipei, Taiwan, January 9- 11, 2009.

• Pedro Peris-Lopez, Julio Cesar Hernandez-Castro, Juan Estevez-Tapiador, Tieyan Li, Yingjiu Li: Vulnerability analysis of RFID protocols for tag ownership transfer. 5th Workshop on RFID Security (RFIDsec 2009 Asia), Taipei, Taiwan, January 9- 11, 2009.

• Tong-Lee Lim, Tieyan Li, Yingjiu Li: A Security and Performance Evaluation of Hash-based RFID Protocols. 4th International Conferences on Information Security and Cryptology (Inscrypt), pages 406-424, LNCS 5487, Beijing, December 14-17, 2008. (acceptance ratio 32/183=17.5%)

• Yingjiu Li, Xuhua Ding: Protecting RFID Communications in Supply Chains. ACM Symposium on InformAtion, Computer, and Communication Security (ASIACCS’07), pages 234-241, Singapore, March 20-22, 2007 (acceptance ratio 33/188 = 17.6%).

Equipment:

RFID Readers:
4 A828 readers, brand and manufacturer: CAEN, model: A828
1 A528 reader, brand and manufacturer: CAEN, model: A528
2 SR112 readers, brand and manufacturer: SmartID, model: SR112
2 SR113 readers, brand and manufacturer: SmartID, model: SR113

RFID Tags:
4 tags, brand and model: IAIK UHF demo tag, manufacturer: IAIK, Technical Univ, Graz, Austria.

2 EPC IS and DS servers.

Memorable moments:

• Team members at Pulau Ubin (September 11, 2009)

• Mr. Lim Chuan Poh (A*Star Chair) visiting to RFID Security Lab (July 14, 2009)

• Mr. Lim Chuan Poh (A*Star Chair) visiting to SIS (July 14, 2009)

• Team members at RFID Security Lab (July 14, 2009)

• Team members at MacRitchie Reservoir (May 8, 2009)

• Dr. Ari Juels visiting National RFID Center (December 5, 2008)

• Dr. Yingjiu Li giving an invited talk at National RFID Center (August 1, 2008)