[RFID Security and Privacy in Passports]

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My thanks go out to all who have helped me complete this study and with whom this project may have not been possible. In particular, my gratitude goes out to friends, facilitator and family for extensive and helpful comments on early drafts. I am also deeply indebted to the authors who have shared my interest and preceded me. Their works provided me with a host of information to learn from and build upon, also served as examples to emulate.

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ABSTRACT

In this study we try to provide an overview of RFID with its relation to the privacy concern. This research will provide information about the various aspects of RFID, advantages, disadvantages and how it will be distinguished from normal things which are in relevance to security. Introduction of RFID channel as a means of security and privacy is studied in detail and how it avoids any uncertainties. RFID offers many types of services to customers in a convenient way, therefore, has a possible prospective to change or convert with the usual system of channels. In future, such systems and channels would get improvised, and they would provide services very differently than they do today. Most of the systems would improve present trend of security and technology with collaborators or advance the structure to promote electronic channels. In the foreseeable future, virtually all consumer goods be equipped with RFID chips, including, lich of the products that the consumers in the public sensitivity at the bears, such as clothing, mobile telephone etc. The RFID technology allows any abuse consumption, since access to the chips in consumer goods effect is not restricted, and so each of Interested out-unnoticed by a reader can be read. We therefore recommend that in integrated products RFID's on sale to the consumer, functional unable to make, with all other secure chips Authentication mechanisms and equip Transparency in the use of RFID technology produce.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ABSTRACTIV

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)1

Origins of RFID technology1

Overview of an RFID system2

RFID Tags:2

RFID readers:3

Backend server:3

Rationale4

Scope5

Aims and objectives:5

Research questions5

Main Contributions6

Summary6

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW8

Issues related with RFID8

Managing Databases9

Spectrum9

Standards9

Authentication and Privacy Considerations10

Benefits of RFID11

Drawbacks of RFID13

Security and RFID17

RFID success and failure18

Environmental concerns20

Failures and their solutions20

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY22

Data Collection22

Literature Search23

The Survey Approach23

Survey Purpose23

Survey Respondents24

Reliability/Dependability24

Validity26

Ethical Considerations28

Pros and Cons of Chosen Methodology29

Limitations30

CHAPTER 4: DISCUSSION31

Risk of injury to the privacy and systems to avoid32

Privacy issues related to the use of RFID34

RFID Privacy Protocols35

RFID challenges39

CHAPTER 5: RESEARCH AND FINDINGS41

CHAPTER 6: CONCLUSION51

Applications and Common Benefits of RFID51

Recommendation53

CHAPTER 7: REFLECTION55

What Worked?55

What difficulties were encountered?55

What was learnt for the research process?56

REFERENCES59

APPENDIX65

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is identified as emerging technology that is utilized by various applications to automatically identify objects such as objects ...