Security and Privacy of Radio Frequency Identification

Tanenbaum, A.S. [Promotor]Crispo, B. [Copromotor

Security in Distributed, Grid, Mobile, and Pervasive Computing

This book addresses the increasing demand to guarantee privacy, integrity, and availability of resources in networks and distributed systems. It first reviews security issues and challenges in content distribution networks, describes key agreement protocols based on the Diffie-Hellman key exchange and key management protocols for complex distributed systems like the Internet, and discusses securing design patterns for distributed systems. The next section focuses on security in mobile computing and wireless networks. After a section on grid computing security, the book presents an overview of security solutions for pervasive healthcare systems and surveys wireless sensor network security

Automatic design of noncryptographic hash functions using genetic programming

Noncryptographic hash functions have an immense number of important practical applications owing to their powerful search properties. However, those properties critically depend on good designs: Inappropriately chosen hash functions are a very common source of performance losses. On the other hand, hash functions are difficult to design: They are extremely nonlinear and counterintuitive, and relationships between the variables are often intricate and obscure. In this work, we demonstrate the utility of genetic programming (GP) and avalanche effect to automatically generate noncryptographic hashes that can compete with state-of-the-art hash functions. We describe the design and implementation of our system, called GP-hash, and its fitness function, based on avalanche properties. Also, we experimentally identify good terminal and function sets and parameters for this task, providing interesting information for future research in this topic. Using GP-hash, we were able to generate two different families of noncryptographic hashes. These hashes are able to compete with a selection of the most important functions of the hashing literature, most of them widely used in the industry and created by world-class hashing experts with years of experience.This work has been funded by the Spanish Department of Science and Innovation (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación), under the research project Gestión de Movilidad Eficiente y Sostenible (TIN2011‐28336