Central Concerns and Questions

Adopting RFID technology is an emerging trend in supply chain management as it enables product information to be collected, tracked, shared, and managed in a real time manner. However, the RFID technology has also triggered significant security concerns as industry espionage may eavesdrop on wireless RFID communications and launch active attacks.

Emerging Ideas and Initiatives

To address the security and privacy concerns in RFID applications, we propose to conduct systematic research, 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.

Selected Publications

[1] Changshe Ma, Yingjiu Li, Robert H. Deng, and Tieyan Li. RFID privacy: relation between two notions, minimal condition, and efficient construction . Accepted by the 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2009) , Chicago , US , November 9-13, 2009.

[2] Shaoying Cai, Tieyan Li, Yingjiu Li, Robert H. 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.

[3] Shaoying Cai, Yingjiu Li, Tieyan Li, Robert H, 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.

[4] 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.

[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.

Projects, Presentations and Posters

1. LI Yingjiu, Protecting RFID Communications in Supply Chain (poster)

Collaborations and Industry Linkages

1. Institute for Infocomm Research
2. SIMTech

Laboratory

RFID Security Lab