Paper Info
Title
RFID and Its Vulnerability to Faults
Abstract
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a rapidly upcoming technology that has become more and more important also in security-related applications. In this article, we discuss the impact of faults on this kind of devices. We have analyzed conventional passive RFID tags from different vendors operating in the High Frequency (HF) and Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) band. First, we consider faults that have been enforced globally affecting the entire RFID chip. We have induced faults caused by temporarily antenna tearing, electromagnetic interferences, and optical inductions. Second, we consider faults that have been caused locally using a focused laser beam. Our experiments have led us to the result that RFID tags are exceedingly vulnerable to faults during the writing of data that is stored into the internal memory. We show that it is possible to prevent the writing of this data as well as to allow the writing of faulty values. In both cases, tags confirm the operation to be successful. We conclude that fault analysis poses a serious threat in this context and has to be considered if cryptographic primitives are embedded into low-cost RFID tags.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-85053-3_23
CHES
Keywords
Field
DocType
electromagnetic interference,cryptographic primitive,rfid tag,ultra-high frequency,entire rfid chip,low-cost rfid tag,different vendor,conventional passive rfid tag,high frequency,radio frequency identification,ultra high frequency,rfid,chip
Internal memory,Fault analysis,Computer science,Computer security,Parallel computing,Chip,Cryptographic primitive,Computer hardware,Radio-frequency identification,Ultra high frequency,Laser beams,Vulnerability
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5154
0302-9743
24
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.51
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michael Hutter134525.26
Jörn-Marc Schmidt230019.25
Thomas Plos323519.19