This paper introduces the Adopted-Pet (AP) protocol, an automatic (i.e. requiring no human interaction) secure pairing protocol, adequate for the pairing between a passive RFID tag and a reader. Most pairing protocols rely for their security on a certain advantage that the legitimate devices have over any malicious users. Such advantages include proximity (employing near-field communication) or...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is an upcoming technology with a large potential, but it also introduces a number of threats. Ownership transfer has been introduced to mitigate the risks which are caused by changes in ownership of RFID tags. We present formal definitions for ownership and ownership transfer in RFID systems and their secure variants. These definitions can be used to verify...

A sentence completion task, first introduced by Bock and Miller (1991) with English speakers, is employed here with Italian to explore the issue of interactivity of different levels of processing in sentence production. In a series of three experiments, we tested the effects of three variables on the number of subject-verb agreement errors. Like Bock and Miller, we found that mismatching singul...

In biometric security system still fingerprint authentication is a challenging task for the altered and compressed images. Apart from the Automatic Fingerprint Identification System(AFIS), the altered, blurred and compressed images are still having quality issues. This paper presents an efficient multi-model biometric system based on multiple fingerprint images which includes altered fingerprin...

This paper presents an updated and annotated checklist of Myrmeleontidae (Neuroptera) Hungary. Currently 16 species with valid faunistical records are known; the presence Myrmeleon hyalinus Olivier, 1811, ignored by most authors, is confirmed, omission Synclisis baetica (Rambur, 1842) from Hungarian verified. An illustrated identification key given to present further 15 might potentially occur ...