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This paper introduces shortly into the security and privacy issues of RFID systems and presents a simple approach to greatly enhance location privacy by changing traceable identifiers securely on every read attempt. The scheme gets by with only a single, unreliable message exchange. By employing one-way hash functions the scheme is safe from many security threats. It is intended for use in item identification but is useful in other applications as well.
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Henrici, D., Müller, P. (2004). Tackling Security and Privacy Issues in Radio Frequency Identification Devices. In: Ferscha, A., Mattern, F. (eds) Pervasive Computing. Pervasive 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3001. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24646-6_16
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