Secure RFID for Humanitarian Logistics

Extreme events like hurricanes, flooding, earthquakes cause massive disruption to society, including large death tolls and property damage. In recent years, many events like the Katrina disaster have shown the importance of efficient disaster management to alleviate the resulting pain and suffering and to mitigate the consequences of the disaster. Disaster management includes a large set of activities including the care of the survivors needs, protection of assets from any further damage and provision of shelter, water, food, and medicines to dislocated people. The creation of effective disaster supply chain to deliver necessary goods to disaster relief organizations is an essential. In this context, this chapter will present the application and benefits of secure RFID to prevent tampering or replacement of the shipment through RFID security threats.JRC.DG.G.6-Security technology assessmen

SPICE Simulation of a Provably Secure True Random Number Generator

In their paper A Provably Secure True Random Number Generator with Built-in Tolerance to Active Attacks , B. Sunar, W. Martin, and D. Stinson propose a design for a true random number generator. Using SPICE simulation we study the behaviour of their random number generator and show that practical implementations result in a too high frequency signal to be processed with current CMOS technology

Fast Arithmetic on ATmega128 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography

Authentication protocols are indispensable in wireless sensor networks. Commonly they are based on asymmetric cryptographic algorithms. In this paper we investigate all categories of finite fields suitable for elliptic curve cryptography on the ATmega128 microcontroller: \F{p}, \F{2^d}, and \F{p^d}. It turns out that binary fields enable the most efficient implementations

Securing disaster supply chains with cryptography enhanced RFID

The deployment and management of an ecient supply chain is one of the most important elements in the response to a natural disaster. The chaotic environment and degraded conditions in the aftermath of a natural disaster are severe challenges to the task of maintaining the supply chain and delivering the correct equipment and goods to the right places and at the right time. RFID has been increasingly considered, in the context of natural disaster scenarios to improve the management of the supply chain. An important requirement is security. RFID devices must not be tampered with and they should be resistant to security attacks to ensure that the supply chain is not disrupted by criminals and that goods are not stolen or tampered with. In this context, this paper will present the application and benefits of secure RFID for disaster supply chains. This paper will analyze practical utilization of this type of device in the resolution of emergency crises to guarantee the reliability of sealing of the goods and their identification. The establishment of a logistics tracking framework based on secure RFID has the potential to greatly increase the eectiveness of future emergency crises response operations.JRC.G.6-Security technology assessmen