Paper Info
Title
Protecting NFC data exchange against eavesdropping with encryption record type definition.
Abstract
Near Field Communication (NFC) is inherently vulnerable to eavesdropping and proximity hijacking attacks. NFC standards itself lack built-in security features against eaves-dropping for all the modes of communication in NFC-ecosystem. This drives the application developers to implement customize security features on their own. These non-standard solutions in turn result in the system's security against vulnerabilities being subject to the developer's capability of designing a secure solution. Clearly, this model is a limiting factor in the widespread adoption and deployment of NFC applications. In this paper we propose a standard Encryption Record Type Definition (ERTD) to provide confidentiality to NFC Data Exchange format (NDEF). Subsequently, we develop a fully compliant prototype of our ERTD as a lightweight plug and play confidentiality middleware in the existing NFC communication architecture. Finally, we perform an in-depth performance evaluation, of different confidentiality related primitives that focuses on processing latency and data overheads.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2016
IEEE IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
Near Field Communication,NFC Security,Encryption Record,NFC Encryption,Tag Confidentiality
Field
DocType
ISSN
Middleware,Near field communication,Software deployment,Data exchange,Eavesdropping,Confidentiality,Computer science,Computer security,Computer network,Plug and play,Encryption
Conference
1542-1201
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
sufian hameed1184.03
Usman Murad Jamali210.37
Adnan Samad310.37