Authentication of the Wireless Rfid System Using Security Protocol

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system is a contact less automatic identification system that has attracted much attention recently. It consists of RFID tags, RFID reader and back-end server. The information stored in the RFID tag is easily exposed to the outside world. So various types of attacks are possible such as bruteforce attack, eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attack. The adversary can determine the security value of a RFID tag using a brute-force attack with a random number. This project focuses on the mutual authentication scheme, a technique in which the RFID tag information is protected from the adversary by exploiting the one-way property of the mutual authentication function. The motivation of this project is to secure an RFID system from privacy and forgery problems. The main aspect of this project is to provide security to the RFID system against the attacks of the adversaries. The various types of security attacks like bruteforce attack, eavesdropping and maninthemiddle attack are prevented by the proposed protocol. It provides mutual authentication between the RFID tag and the back-end server. Further, this method updates the secret value of the RFID tag in each communication.