Privacy-Enhanced Adult Certification Method for Multimedia Contents on Mobile RFID Environments

Recently, RFID (radio frequency identification) technology is practically applied to a number of logistics processes as well as asset management, and RFID is also expected to be permeated in our daily life with the name of ´ubiquitous computing´ or ´ubiquitous network´ within the near future. The R&D groups in global now have paid attention to integrate RFID with mobile devices as well as to associate with the existing mobile telecommunication network. Such a converged technology and services would lead to make new markets and research challenges. However, the privacy violation on tagged products has become stumbling block. We propose a privacy-enhanced method of certifying adults in mobile RFID environments. This paper is for checking a user whether he/she is an adult or not, when a user would like to read some adult-related data using mobile devices playing a role of tag readers on mobile RFID environments. Instead of current adult-certification method using one´s own mobile devices, an adult certification in this paper uses any mobile devices and provides user´s anonymity.